On the costs of refocusing items in working memory: A matter of inhibition or decay?

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 374-385

  Janczyk, Markus ^a   Wienrich, Carolin ^b   Kunde, Wilfried ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE INHIBITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42549136380     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210801941742     Document Type: Article

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