Do people remember the temporal proximity of unrelated events?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1122-1136

  Friedman, William J ^a   Janssen, Steve M J ^b,c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650631006     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.8.1122     Document Type: Article

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