Stimulus and response chunking in the Hebb Digits task

Psychological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 180-192

  O'Shea, Geoffrey ^a   Clegg, Benjamin A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33646728218     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-004-0198-1     Document Type: Article

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