Modeling Distributions of Immediate Memory Effects: No Strategies Needed?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 219-229

  Beaman, C Philip ^a   Neath, Ian ^b   Surprenant, Aimée M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

immediate recall; individual differences; memory modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 38649131493     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.219     Document Type: Article

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