Enhancing visuospatial learning: The benefit of retrieval practice.
Studies examining the beneficial effect of testing on memory have relied almost exclusively on verbal materials. Whether testing can improve the learning of novel, abstract visuospatial information was investigated, using Chinese characters as study stimuli. Subjects with no prior Chinese language e...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 8; pp. 1009 - 1018 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2010
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