Item learning in cognitive skill training: Effects of item difficulty

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1260-1270

  Hoyer, William J ^a   Cerella, John ^a   Onyper, Serge V ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SKILL; TRAINING;

EID: 1442277016     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195809     Document Type: Article

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