Forgetting from working memory: Does novelty encoding matter?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-125

  Plancher, Gaën ^a   Barrouillet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Novelty; SOB model; TBRS model; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SERIAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875532929     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028475     Document Type: Article

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