Comparative study of visual and verbal short-term memory in English and Spanish speakers: Testing a linguistic hypothesis

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-110

  Olazaran, Javier ^a   Jacobs, Diane M ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Digit span; Short term memory; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SERIAL LEARNING; URBAN POPULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030089599     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1355617700000953     Document Type: Article

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