Acoustic masking disrupts time-dependent mechanisms of memory encoding in word-list recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 622-638

  Cousins, Katheryn A Q ^a   Dar, Hayim ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a   Miller, Paul ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Recall; Short term store; Simulation; Word list

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901008093     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0377-7     Document Type: Article

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