Context change and retrieval difficulty in the list-before-last paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 844-860

  Sahakyan, Lili ^a   Hendricks, Hannah E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Context change; Forgetting; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; TIME;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870338861     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0198-0     Document Type: Article

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