Mechanisms of word concreteness effects in explicit memory: Does context availability play a role?
One explanation for why concrete words are recalled better than abstract words is systematic differences across these word types in the availability of context information. In contrast, explanations for the concrete-word advantage in recognition memory do not consider a possible role for context ava...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 169 - 182 |
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