Information Retrieval during Free Listing Is Biased by Memory: Evidence from Medicinal Plants.

Free listing is a methodological tool that is widely used in various scientific disciplines. A typical assumption of this approach is that individual lists reflect a subset of total knowledge and that the first items listed are the most culturally important. However, little is known about how cognit...

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Main Authors: Daniel Carvalho Pires de Sousa, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Julio Marcelino Monteiro, Thiago Antonio de Sousa Araújo, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5096679?pdf=render