List composition and the word length effect in immediate recall: A comparison of localist and globalist assumptions

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 74-79

  Cowan, Nelson ^a   Baddeley, Alan D ^b   Elliott, Emily M ^a   Norris, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0042278544     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196469     Document Type: Article

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