Forgetting at short term: When do event-based interference and temporal factors have an effect?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-167

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Plancher, Gaën ^a   Guida, Alessandro ^a   Camos, Valérie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Complex span tasks; Forgetting; Interference; Short term memory; Temporal decay; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872670504     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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