The temporal contiguity effect predicts episodic memory performance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 689-699

  Sederberg, Per B ^a   Miller, Jonathan F ^b   Howard, Marc W ^c   Kahana, Michael J ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77957569176     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.6.689     Document Type: Article

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