When two is too many: Collaborative encoding impairs memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-264

  Barber, Sarah J ^a   Rajaram, Suparna ^a   Aron, Arthur ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COOPERATION; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77954661521     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.3.255     Document Type: Article

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