Effects of ongoing task context and target typicality on prospective memory performance: The importance of associative cueing

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 649-657

  Nowinski, Jessica Lang ^a   Dismukes, R Key ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 24344439280     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210444000313     Document Type: Article

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