Memory Seeding: Representations Underlying Quantitative Estimations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1137-1153

  LaVoie, Nadezhda N ^a   Bourne Jr , Lyle E ^a   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; POPULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047672692     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.6.1137     Document Type: Article

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