Dissociating Conditional Recency in Immediate and Delayed Free Recall: A Challenge for Unitary Models of Recency

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 324-347

  Farrell, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computational modelling; free recall; serial recall; temporal distinctiveness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; TIME;

ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649230894     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018042     Document Type: Article

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