Forgetting is effortful: Evidence from reaction time probes in an item-method directed forgetting task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1168-1181

  Fawcett, Jonathan M ^a   Taylor, Tracy L ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS; VISION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTENTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 54949105389     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1168     Document Type: Article

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