Interference in verbal working memory: Distinguishing similarity-based confusion, feature overwriting, and feature migration

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 730-745

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a   Lange, Elke B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Features; Interference; Similarity; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749107307     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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