The role of rehearsal on the output order of immediate free recall of short and long lists

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-347

  Grenfell Essam, Rachel ^a   Ward, Geoff ^a   Tan, Lydia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free recall; List length; Output order; Rehearsal; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84883011498     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028974     Document Type: Article

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