The future-orientation of memory: Planning as a key component mediating the high levels of recall found with survival processing

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-139

  Klein, Stanley B ^a   Robertson, Theresa E ^a   Delton, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Memory; Time

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SURVIVAL;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTENTION; MENTAL RECALL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SURVIVAL; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79951717096     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.537827     Document Type: Article

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