Easy comes, easy goes? The link between learning and remembering and its exploitation in metacognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 416-428

  Koriat, Asher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EASILY LEARNED EASILY REMEMBERED THEORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUDGMENT OF LEARNING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METACOGNITION; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SELF EVALUATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDITY; ATTENTION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME;

EID: 44649138174     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.2.416     Document Type: Article

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