Revisiting backward recall and benchmark memory effects: A reply to Bireta et al. (2010)

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-407

  Guérard, Katherine ^a   Saint Aubin, Jean ^a   Burns, Samantha C ^a   Chamberland, Cindy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Articulatory suppression; Backward recall; Immediate memory; Irrelevant speech; Phonological similarity; Word length

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NOTE; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 84864486589     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0156-2     Document Type: Article

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