Mnemonic context effect in two cultures: Attention to memory representations?

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1009-1020

  Duffy, Sean ^a   Kitayama, Shinobu ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Context; Culture; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449021253     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210701703808     Document Type: Article

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