Some evidence for the existence of a general factor of semantic memory and its components

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 857-871

  Irwing, Paul ^a   Cammock, Tommy ^a   Lynn, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General knowledge; Individual differences; IQ; Long term memory; Structural equations modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005737106     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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