Putting Short-Term Memory Into Context: Reply to Usher, Davelaar, Haarmann, and Goshen-Gottstein (2008)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1119-1125

  Kahana, Michael J ^a   Sederberg, Per B ^b   Howard, Marc W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context; episodic memory; free recall; short term memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349152077     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013724     Document Type: Article

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