Distinctiveness revisited: Unpredictable temporal isolation does not benefit short-term serial recall of heard or seen events

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1368-1375

  Nimmo, Lisa M ^a   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 33846009081     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193278     Document Type: Article

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