The influence of item properties on association-memory

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-63

  Madan, Christopher R ^a   Glaholt, Mackenzie G ^b   Caplan, Jeremy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association memory; Associative symmetry; Episodic memory; Imageability; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951652399     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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