The persistence of memory: Contiguity effects across hundreds of seconds

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Howard, Marc W ^a   Youker, Tess E ^a   Venkatadass, Vijay S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 46749112353     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.1.58     Document Type: Article

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