Reexamining the phonological similarity effect in immediate serial recall: The roles of type of similarity, category cuing, and item recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1001-1016

  Gupta, Prahlad ^a,b   Lipinski, John ^a   Aktunc, Emrah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; META ANALYSIS;

CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS;

EID: 33645069971     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193208     Document Type: Article

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