The ''Journal of Memory and Language'' is a

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of cognitive science, which focuses primarily on the issues of

memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, ...

and

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. It has been published by

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since 1985. The current

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Kathleen Rastle Kathleen Rastle is a cognitive psychologist and Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London where she was previously the Head of Department of Psychology (2015-2019). Her research has made fundamental contribution ...

(

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). The

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's ''

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'' ranked the journal first in the field of linguistics, with a 2010

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of 4.014.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in Abstracts in Anthropology,

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, Current Index to Journals in Education,

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, Research Alert,

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, and the

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