Directed forgetting and directed remembering in visual working memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1206-1220

  Williams, Melonie ^a   Woodman, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Maintenance; Memory cues; Rehearsal; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872676439     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027389     Document Type: Article

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