Memory Strategically Encodes Externally Unavailable Information

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1458-1463

  Macias, Carla ^a   Yung, Amanda ^a   Hemmer, Pernille ^b   Kidd, Celeste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; human experimentation; learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURKS; COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS; FINE GRAINED; HIGH LEVEL KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATIONS; HUMAN MEMORY; LEARNING; SENSORY INFORMATION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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