List-method directed forgetting: The forget cue improves both encoding and retrieval of postcue information

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 861-873

  Pastötter, Bernhard ^a   Kliegl, Oliver ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Interference; List output order; Reset of encoding; Serial list position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; TIME;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867982712     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0206-4     Document Type: Article

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