Serial-position effects for items and relations in short-term memory

Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 347-365

  Jones, Tim ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Primacy effects; Recency effects; Serial position curves; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84875990442     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.726629     Document Type: Article

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