Episodic feeling-of-knowing resolution derives from the quality of original encoding

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 771-784

  Hertzog, Christopher ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b   Sinclair, Starlette M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957593457     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.6.771     Document Type: Article

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