A causal contiguity effect that persists across time scales

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 297-303

  Kiliç, Asli ^a   Criss, Amy H ^a   Howard, Marc W ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Memory models; Probed recall; Temporal contiguity effec

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84875488242     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028463     Document Type: Article

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