Experience with proactive interference diminishes its effects: Mechanisms of change

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-195

  Wahlheim, Christopher N ^a   Jacoby, Larry L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory training; Metacognition; Proactive interference; Source constrained retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 79952187891     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0017-4     Document Type: Article

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