Positional cues in serial learning: The spin-list technique

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Kahana, Michael J ^a   Mollison, Matthew V ^a   Addis, Kelly M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 75149132814     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.1.92     Document Type: Article

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