Memory-load interference in syntactic processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 425-430

  Gordon, Peter C ^a,c   Hendrick, Randall ^a   Levine, William H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036715575     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00475     Document Type: Article

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