The importance of knowledge in vivid text memory: An individual-differences investigation of recollection and familiarity

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 604-609

  Long, Debra L ^a,b   Prat, Chantel ^c   Johns, Clinton ^a   Morris, Phillip ^a   Jonathan, Eunike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 50949110220     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.3.604     Document Type: Article

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