Failure to Recall

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-186

  Laming, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

forgetting; free recall; rehearsal; termination of recall; total time hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SERIAL LEARNING; SLEEP; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 60749100994     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014150     Document Type: Article

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