Verbal and visuospatial short-term memory in children: Evidence for common and distinct mechanisms

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1117-1130

  Pickering, Susan J ^a   Gathercole, Susan E ^a   Peaker, Sarah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031793053     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201189     Document Type: Article

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