Separate mnemonic effects of retrieval practice and elaborative encoding

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-29

  Karpicke, Jeffrey D ^a   Smith, Megan A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elaboration; Learning; Retrieval practice; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862809440     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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