Rehearsal effects in adult word learning

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-148

  Kaushanskaya, Margarita ^a   Yoo, Jeewon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonology; Rehearsal; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78651255800     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.486579     Document Type: Article

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