Benefits of accumulating versus diminishing cues in recall

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 289-298

  Finley, Jason R ^a   Benjamin, Aaron S ^a   Hays, Matthew J ^b,d   Bjork, Robert A ^b   Kornell, Nate ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Retrieval cues; Retrieval difficulty; Retrieval practice; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953181250     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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