Power laws from individual differences in learning and forgetting: Mathematical analyses

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 592-597

  Murre, Jaap M J ^a   Chessa, Antonio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Effects of averaging; Forgetting; Learning; Power law of learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 80052880819     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0076-y     Document Type: Article

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