When remembering causes forgetting: Retrieval-induced forgetting as recovery failure

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1221-1234

  Bäuml, Karl Heinz ^a   Zellner, Martina ^a   Vilimek, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Episodic forgetting; Recovery; Retrieval induced forgetting; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 30544450330     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.6.1221     Document Type: Article

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