Information processing and reasoning with premises that are empirically false: Interference, working memory, and processing speed

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 592-601

  Markovits, Henry ^a,b   Doyon, Celine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 4644277594     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195850     Document Type: Article

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