Storing information in-the-world: Metacognition and cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-74

  Risko, Evan F ^a   Dunn, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Embodied embedded cognition; Memory; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; METACOGNITION; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING; HEARING; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; METACOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936153666     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.05.014     Document Type: Article

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