Overcoming the negative consequences of interference from recognition memory testing

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-119

  Malmberg, Kenneth J ^a   Criss, Amy H ^b   Gangwani, Tarun H ^c   Shiffrin, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

forgetting; memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856435295     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611430692     Document Type: Article

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