Temporal isolation does not facilitate forward serial recall - Or does it?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 957-967

  Geiger, Sonja M ^a   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46449087648     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.5.957     Document Type: Article

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