Number of cues influences the cost of remembering to remember

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-156

  Cohen, Anna Lisa ^a,b   Jaudas, Alexander ^c   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; TIME PERCEPTION;

CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 41649107839     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.1.149     Document Type: Article

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