Does optimal recall performance in the adaptive memory paradigm require the encoding context to encourage thoughts about the environment of evolutionary adaptation?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-59

  Klein, Stanley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Memory models; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT; SURVIVAL; THINKING; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; SURVIVAL; THINKING;

EID: 84876065025     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0239-8     Document Type: Article

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