Capturing the Suffix: Cognitive Streaming in Immediate Serial Recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 12-28

  Nicholls, Alastair P ^a,b   Jones, Dylan M ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PITCH PERCEPTION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047673465     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.1.12     Document Type: Article

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