Effects of successive relearning on recall: Does relearning override the effects of initial learning criterion?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 897-909

  Vaughn, Kalif E ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b   Rawson, Katherine A ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Recall; Successive relearning

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; PREDICTION; RECALL; STUDENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; ADULT; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962219259     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-016-0606-y     Document Type: Article

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