Does relocating information in text depend on verbal or visuospatial abilities? An individual-differences analysis

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 801-806

  Rawson, Katherine A ^a   Miyake, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORIENTATION; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0038307149     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196338     Document Type: Article

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