No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 120-126

  Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^b   Brown, Gordon D A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGIES; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTIONS; SHORT-TERM MEMORIES; TEMPORAL DECAYS;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 60849133895     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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