Limits on the role of retrieval cues in memory for actions: Enactment effects in the absence of object cues in the environment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1841-1853

  Steffens, Melanie C ^a   Buchner, Axel ^b   Wender, Karl F ^c   Decker, Claudia ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; ENACTMENT EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTION; PHRASE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSION HYPOTHESIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 38149084042     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192919     Document Type: Article

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