Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The effects of list length and output order

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1207-1241

  Ward, Geoff ^a   Tan, Lydia ^b   Grenfell Essam, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free recall; List length; Output order; Serial recall; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77956532738     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020122     Document Type: Article

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