Why do rereading lag effects depend on test delay?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 870-884

  Rawson, Katherine A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lag effect; Rereading; Retention interval; Spacing effect; Text comprehension theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862262976     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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