The Separability of Working Memory Resources for Spatial Thinking and Language Processing: An Individual Differences Approach

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-27

  Shah, Priti ^a,b   Miyake, Akira ^a,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030094120     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.125.1.4     Document Type: Article

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