Unblocking memory through directed forgetting

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 901-907

  Koppel, Rebecca H ^a   Storm, Benjamin C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Fixation; Memory blocking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORGETTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REPETITION PRIMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 84871010964     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2012.716822     Document Type: Article

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