Working memory load differentially affects tip-of-the-tongue states and feeling-of-knowing judgments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-19

  Schwartz, Bennett L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 41649083765     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.1.9     Document Type: Article

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