Selective memory retrieval can impair and improve retrieval of other memories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 488-494

  Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a   Samenieh, Anuscheh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; Forgetting; Inhibition; Reinstatement; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

ADULT; CUES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863598236     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025683     Document Type: Article

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