Extensions of the survival advantage in memory: Examining the role of ancestral context and implied social isolation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1091-1098

  Kostic, Bogdan ^a   McFarlan, Chastity C ^b   Cleary, Anne M ^c  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Memory; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84871681613     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026974     Document Type: Article

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