Can the survival recall advantage be explained by basic memory processes?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 913-919

  Weinstein, Yana ^a   Bugg, Julie M ^b   Roediger III, Henry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 46449092131     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.5.913     Document Type: Article

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