The demise of short-term memory revisited: Empirical and computational investigations of recency effects

Psychological Review

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-42

  Davelaar, Eddy J ^a   Goshen Gottstein, Yonatan ^b   Ashkenazi, Amir ^b   Haarmann, Henk J ^c   Usher, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344322521     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.1.3     Document Type: Article

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