Are the costs of directed forgetting due to failures of sampling or recovery? Exploring the dynamics of recall in list-method directed forgetting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-411

  Spillers, Gregory J ^a   Unsworth, Nash ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Context change account; Directed forgetting; Random search model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTENTION; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VOLITION;

EID: 79960031457     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0038-z     Document Type: Article

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