Word frequency effects in immediate serial recall: Item familiarity and item co-occurrence have the same effect

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 325-332

  Saint Aubin, Jean ^a   Poirier, Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 19044384539     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210344000369     Document Type: Article

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