A new look at an old study on information display: Washburne (1927) reconsidered

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-340

  Meyer, Joachim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; READING; RECALL;

EID: 0031430233     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778827034     Document Type: Article

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