Roles of working memory capacity and long-term working memory skill in complex task performance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 458-466

  Sohn, Young Woo ^a   Doane, Stephanie M ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0038247919     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194403     Document Type: Article

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