Semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory: Are pleasant words easier to remember than neutral words in serial recall and serial recognition?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-42

  Monnier, Catherine ^a   Syssau, Arielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; AFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 41649102431     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.1.35     Document Type: Article

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