Contextual variability in free recall

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 249-255

  Lohnas, Lynn J ^a   Polyn, Sean M ^b   Kahana, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Free recall; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951577571     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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