Measuring central executive functioning: What's in a reading Span?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Whitney, Paul ^a   Arnett, Peter A ^a   Driver, Amy ^a   Budd, Desiree ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Central executive; Interference; Speed of processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0035101272     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.2000.1243     Document Type: Article

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