Examining the role of context variability in memory for items and associations.
What properties of a word make it easy or difficult to remember? Word frequency and context variability are separate, closely related word properties that have disparate influences on memorability. The influence of word frequency changes depending on the memory task, with high-frequency words tendin...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 940 - 955 |
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