Effect of focus on verbal working memory: Critical role of the focus word in reading

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 562-571

  Osaka, Mariko ^a   Nishizaki, Yukiko ^a   Komori, Mie ^a   Osaka, Naoyuki ^b  

^a Osaka University of Foreign Studies   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

HUMANS; MEMORY; READING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036335007     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194957     Document Type: Article

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