Working memory capacity and the construction of spatial mental models in comprehension and deductive reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 426-447

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a,b   Weidenfeld, Andrea ^a   Hörnig, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOGIC; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33645057478     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210500151717     Document Type: Article

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