Retrieval during learning facilitates subsequent memory encoding

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 287-297

  Pastötter, Bernhard ^a   Schicker, Sabine ^a   Niedernhuber, Julia ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations; Encoding; Learning; Retrieval; Testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952406043     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021801     Document Type: Article

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