Repetition-spacing and item-overlap effects in the Hebb repetition task

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 506-526

  Page, Michael P A ^a   Cumming, Nick ^a   Norris, Dennis ^b   McNeil, Alan M ^c   Hitch, Graham J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chunking; Hebb repetition effect; Sequence learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885426384     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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