Information retrieval during free listing is biased by memory: Evidence from medicinal plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  De Sousa, Daniel Carvalho Pires ^a   Soldati, Gustavo Taboada ^b   Monteiro, Julio Marcelino ^c   De Sousa Araújo, Thiago Antonio ^d   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEMORY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84994624462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165838     Document Type: Article

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