Working memory: Looking back and looking forward

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 829-839

  Baddeley, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MODEL; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND; THEORY; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142153190     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1201     Document Type: Article

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