Immunity to proactive interference is not a property of the focus of attention in working memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-230

  Ralph, Alicia ^a   Walters, Jade N ^a   Stevens, Alison ^a   Fitzgerald, Kirra J ^a   Tehan, Gerald ^a   Surprenant, Aimee M ^b   Neath, Ian ^b   Turcotte, Josée ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Focus of attention; Proactive interference; Serial recall; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHONETICS; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 79952186042     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0030-7     Document Type: Article

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