Distributed rereading can hurt the spacing effect in text memory

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 685-695

  Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a   Özsoy, Binnur ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 48249101257     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1388     Document Type: Article

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