Task interference from prospective memories covaries with contextual associations of fulfilling them

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1037-1045

  Marsh, Richard L ^a,c   Hicks, Jason L ^b   Cook, Gabriel I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK INTERFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33750837153     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193250     Document Type: Article

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