The development of long-term lexical representations through Hebb repetition learning

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 342-354

  Szmalec, Arnaud ^a   Page, Mike P A ^c   Duyck, Wouter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hebb effect; Lexical competition; Memory; Serial order; Sleep; Word form learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865575668     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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