Retrieval-induced forgetting without competition: Testing the retrieval specificity assumption of the inhibition theory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-27

  Raaijmakers, Jeroen G W ^a   Jakab, Emoke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interference inhibition; Memory; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555170810     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0131-y     Document Type: Article

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