Understanding the dynamics of correct and error responses in free recall: Evidence from externalized free recall.
The dynamics of correct and error responses in a variant of delayed free recall were examined in the present study. In the externalized free recall paradigm, participants were presented with lists of words and were instructed to subsequently recall not only the words that they could remember from th...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 419 - 431 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
June 2010
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