Susceptibility of spatial and verbal working memory to demands of the central executive

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-97

  Kondo, Hirohito ^a,b   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central executive; Dual task paradigm; Simple arithmetic; Spatial and verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042607953     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-5368.2004.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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