Individual differences in recall of focus and alternatives.
Contrastive focus has been shown to enhance memory for focused elements and their contextual alternatives. However, recent work has shown that the memory effects of contrastive accenting vary across individuals. The present study investigates whether individual differences in memory for focus-relate...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 2289 - 2308 |
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