Intention to learn influences the word frequency effect in recall but not in recognition memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1316-1325

  Dewhurst, Stephen A ^a,b   Brandt, Karen R ^a   Sharp, Melanie S ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 17144375333     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206322     Document Type: Article

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