Differentiated forgetting rates of spatial knowledge in humans in the absence of repeated testing

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 678-688

  Corazzini, Luca Latini ^a   Thinus Blanc, Catherine ^b   Nesa, Marie Pascale ^b   Geminiani, Giuliano Carlo ^a   Péruch, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Forgetting; Spatial knowledge; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52649151882     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802286931     Document Type: Article

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