Rote rehearsal and spacing effects in the free recall of pure and mixed lists

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-47

  Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^a   Delaney, Peter F ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Free recall; Mixed lists; Pure lists; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549018533     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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