Experts’ memory superiority for domain-specific random material generalizes across fields of expertise: A meta-analysis

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 183-193

  Sala, Giovanni ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expertise; Memory; Meta analysis; Random; Recall

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKILL; STIMULUS; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 84992052273     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-016-0663-2     Document Type: Article

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