Pascual-Leone and Baddeley's models of information processing as predictors of academic performance

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 787-798

  Vaquero, José ^a   De Astudillo, Luisa Rojas ^b   Niaz, Mansoor ^b,c  

^a Inst Univ Tecn 'Jose Antonio A

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

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EID: 0002212853     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.787     Document Type: Article

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