Persistent difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech: Implications for cross-linguistic comparisons

Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1090-1092

  Bavelier, Daphne ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^a   Hall, Matthew L ^a   Supalla, Ted ^a   Boutla, Mrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33845683029     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01831.x     Document Type: Note

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