Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity: More Evidence for a General Capacity Theory

Memory

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 577-590

  Conway, Andrew R A ^a   Engle, Randall W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030279038     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/741940997     Document Type: Article

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