On the future of forgetting and the processing-storage relationship in reading span performance

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 425-443

  Saito, Satoru ^a   Miyake, Akira ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Interference; Reading span test; Resourse sharing hypothesis; Task switching hypothesis; Time based forgetting; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442454776     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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