The multiple faces of working memory: Storage, processing, supervision, and coordination

Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 167-193

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a   Süß, Heinz Martin ^a   Wilhelm, Oliver ^a   Wittman, Werner W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive capacity; Coordination; Task set switching; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037349958     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00115-0     Document Type: Article

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