Individual differences in phonological learning and verbal STM span

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1122-1135

  Service, Elisabet ^a,b,c,d   Maury, Sini ^a   Luotontemi, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34548633149     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193483     Document Type: Article

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