Enhancing visuospatial learning: The benefit of retrieval practice

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1009-1017

  Kang, Sean H K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WRITING;

AWARENESS; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 78650664921     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.8.1009     Document Type: Article

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