Suppressing Irrelevant Information: Knowledge Activation or Inhibition?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 465-482

  McNamara, Danielle S ^a,c   McDaniel, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BASEBALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; READING; REINFORCEMENT; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; BASEBALL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 1542267832     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.2.465     Document Type: Article

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