Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and Episodic Retrieval: Examining the Dynamics of Delayed and Continuous Distractor Free Recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1020-1034

  Unsworth, Nash ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

individual differences; random search; recall; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; THINKING;

EID: 36049009042     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.6.1020     Document Type: Article

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