Buffered forgetting: When targets and abstractors are both forgotten

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1267-1282

  Weeks, Clinton S ^a   Humphreys, Michael S ^a   Hockley, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THINKING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 35748975951     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193600     Document Type: Article

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