The spacing effect in immediate and delayed free recall

Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 462-469

  Godbole, Namrata R ^a   Delaney, Peter F ^a   Verkoeijen, Peter P J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Free recall; Reminding; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; RECALL; TIME;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898059196     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.798416     Document Type: Article

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