Serial Position Curves in Free Recall

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-133

  Laming, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

distribution of total recall; free recall; power law; rehearsal; serial position curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74049150530     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017839     Document Type: Article

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