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Journal of Experimental Psychology
Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

ISSN 0278-7393
eISSN 1939-1285
Open access offered
Published monthly
Impact factor 2.3
5-year impact factor 2.8
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Psychology 44 of 93

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition® publishes original experimental and theoretical research on human cognition, with a special emphasis on learning, memory, language, and higher cognition.

The journal publishes impactful articles of any length, including literature reviews, meta-analyses, replications, theoretical notes, and commentaries on previously published works in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

The journal places a high emphasis on methodological soundness and analytic rigor, as well as on the reproducibility and replicability of research.

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The role of meaning in visual working memory: Real-world objects, but not simple features, benefit from deeper processing.

Brady, Timothy F.; Störmer, Viola S.

The rich-get-richer effect: Prior knowledge predicts new learning of domain-relevant information.

Witherby, Amber E.; Carpenter, Shana K.

A new look at memory retention and forgetting.

Radvansky, Gabriel A.; Doolen, Abigail C.; Pettijohn, Kyle A.; Ritchey, Maureen

Proactive control in the Stroop task: A conflict-frequency manipulation free of item-specific, contingency-learning, and color-word correlation confounds.

Spinelli, Giacomo; Lupker, Stephen J.

Diagnostic feature training improves face matching accuracy.

Towler, Alice; Keshwa, Michelle; Ton, Bianca; Kemp, Richard I.; White, David

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The misinformation effect: A contemporary replication and extension of Loftus et al. (1978) to investigate its underlying mechanisms.

Wiechert, Sera; Verschueren, Amelie; Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Pertzov, Yoni; Loftus, Elizabeth F.; Verschuere, Bruno

Young adults’ self-initiated intentional memory retrieval strategy use during free recall of unrelated words from episodic memory.

Goewert, Samantha A.; Stone, Melissa L.; Herstam, Benjamin J.; Walters, Alexander L.; Kirchhoff, Brenda A.

Episodic memory contributions to working memory–supported reinforcement learning.

Hong, Soobin H.; Zou, Amy R.; Yoo, Aspen H.; Collins, Anne G. E.

Asymmetric cross-sensory interference between spatial memories of sounds and smells revealed in a virtual reality environment.

Szychowska, Malina; Ersson, Karolina; Olofsson, Jonas K.

Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

Elsherif, M. M.; Preece, E.; Catling, J. C.

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