Response suppression contributes to recency in serial recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1070-1080

  Farrell, Simon ^a,b   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Recall; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866847127     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0212-6     Document Type: Article

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