The interaction of word frequency and concreteness in immediate serial recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 850-865

  Miller, Leonie M ^a   Roodenrys, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349227428     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.850     Document Type: Article

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