Silence and the shaping of memory: How distracted listeners affect speakers' subsequent recall of a computer game experience

Memory

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-169

  Pasupathi, Monisha ^a   Hoyt, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Listener effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECREATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 77649117395     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210902992917     Document Type: Article

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