Reducing structural-element salience on a source problem produces later success in analogical transfer: What role does source difficulty play?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1053-1064

  Didierjean, André ^a,c   Nogry, Sandra ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALOGY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EDUCATION; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOGIC; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SOURCE DIFFICULTY;

EID: 14844336310     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196881     Document Type: Article

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