The validity of "conceptual span" as a measure of working memory capacity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1136-1150

  Kane, Michael J ^a   Miyake, Tina M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VALIDITY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34548621716     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193484     Document Type: Article

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