Does salience facilitate longer-term retention?

Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-53

  Hunt, R Reed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed recall; Isolation effect; Memory and salience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIENCE; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149377605     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802524257     Document Type: Article

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