Unexpected costs of high working memory capacity following directed forgetting and contextual change manipulations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1074-1082

  Delaney, Peter F ^a   Sahakyan, Lili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34548618983     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193479     Document Type: Article

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