The effects of prior knowledge on the encoding of episodic contextual details

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-257

  DeWitt, Michael R ^a   Knight, Justin B ^a   Hicks, Jason L ^b   Ball, B Hunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding effects; Episodic memory; Prior knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858408727     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0196-4     Document Type: Article

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