Short-Term Memory After All: Comment on Sederberg, Howard, and Kahana (2008)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1108-1116

  Usher, Marius ^a   Davelaar, Eddy J ^a   Haarmann, Henk J ^b   Goshen Gottstein, Yonatan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

free recall; long term recency; short term memory; temporal context

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 56149103182     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013725     Document Type: Article

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