Hemispheric processing of inferences: The effects of textual constraint and working memory capacity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1341-1354

  Virtue, Sandra ^a   Van Den Broek, Paul ^b   Linderholm, Tracy ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33845988713     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193276     Document Type: Article

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