Item and order information in semantic memory: Students' retention of the "CU fight song" lyrics

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-259

  Overstreet, Michael F ^a   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Semantic memory; Serial position effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MUSIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; STUDENTS;

EID: 79952183557     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0018-3     Document Type: Article

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