Is the survival-processing memory advantage due to richness of encoding?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1294-1302

  Röer, Jan P ^a   Bell, Raoul ^a   Buchner, Axel ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Elaboration; Fitness relevance; Levels of processing; Survival processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SURVIVAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SURVIVAL; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880666510     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031214     Document Type: Article

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