A deeper analysis of the spacing effect after "deep" encoding

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1003-1015

  Delaney, Peter F ^a   Spirgel, Arie S ^a   Toppino, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Mnemonics; Recall; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECALL; TIME;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866870663     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0207-3     Document Type: Article

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