Think before You Speak: Pauses, Memory Search, and Trace Redintegration Processes in Verbal Memory Span

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 447-463

  Hulme, Charles ^a   Newton, Philip ^a   Stuart, George ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^b   Brown, Gordon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033092335     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.447     Document Type: Article

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