Unchained Memory: Error Patterns Rule out Chaining Models of Immediate Serial Recall

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 80-115

  Henson, Richard N A ^a   Norris, Dennis G ^a   Page, Michael P A ^a   Baddeley, Alan D ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030298862     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755612     Document Type: Article

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