Working memory capacity dissociates lexical and sentential context effects

Psychological Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 238-242

  Van Petten, Cyma ^b   Weckerly, Jill ^a   McIsaac, Heather K ^c   Kutas, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0346616861     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00418.x     Document Type: Article

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