Evidence for similar principles in episodic and semantic memory: The presidential serial position function

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 659-666

  Neath, Ian ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 77956477119     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.5.659     Document Type: Article

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