Testing the associative-link hypothesis in immediate serial recall: Evidence from word frequency and word imageability effects

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 675-690

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Altarriba, Jeanette ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 34547552551     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701467186     Document Type: Article

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