Concreteness and item-to-list context associations in the free recall of items differing in context variability

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1424-1430

  Marsh, Richard L ^a,d   Meeks, J Thadeus ^a,d   Hicks, Jason L ^b   Cook, Gabriel I ^c   Clark Foos, Arlo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Context variability; Environmental context; Episodic memory; Free recall; Item to list associations

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33750739795     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1424     Document Type: Review

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