No difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech

Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1093-1094

  Wilson, Margaret ^a   Emmorey, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; TIME FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33845638798     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01835.x     Document Type: Note

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