Shared encoding and the costs and benefits of collaborative recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 183-195

  Harris, Celia B ^a   Barnier, Amanda J ^a   Sutton, John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative inhibition; Collaborative recall; Cross cuing; Social memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875485436     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028906     Document Type: Article

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