Your words are my words: Effects of acting together on encoding

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1026-1034

  Eskenazi, Terry ^a   Doerrfeld, Adam ^b   Logan, Gordon D ^c   Knoblich, Guenther ^a,d   Sebanz, Natalie ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Collaborative memory; Joint action; Memory encoding; Observation inflation; Task sharing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84877273021     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.725058     Document Type: Article

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