Primacy and recency effects in immediate free recall of sequences of spatial positions

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 483-500

  Bonanni, Rita ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,c   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,d   Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto ^a,d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAN GIOVANNI CALIBITA FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Istituto San Raffaele   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 36348994993     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.2.483-500     Document Type: Article

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