Retrieval contexts and the concreteness effect: Dissociations in memory for concrete and abstract words

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 859-881

  Doest, Laura Ter ^a   Semin, Gün ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 28444444902     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440540000031     Document Type: Article

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