The effects of word frequency and context variability in cued recall

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-132

  Criss, Amy H ^a   Aue, William R ^a   Smith, Larissa ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context variability; Cued recall; Episodic memory; Mathematical models; Memory models; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651067660     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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