The effects of "effort after meaning" on recall: Differences in within- and between-subjects designs

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 447-463

  Zaromb, Franklin M ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MEMORY; RECALL;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649595588     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.4.447     Document Type: Article

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