Exploring the relationship between new word learning and short-term memory for serial order recall, item recall, and item recognition

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 848-873

  Majerus, Steve ^a,b   Poncelet, Martine ^a   Elsen, Bruno ^a   Van Der Linden, Martial ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 33748766614     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440500446476     Document Type: Article

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