Remembering the news: Modeling retention data from a study with 14,000 participants

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 793-810

  Meeter, M ^a,b   Murre, J M J ^b,c   Janssen, S M J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION CENTER; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MULTIMEDIA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644877220     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193075     Document Type: Article

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