Interference between storage and processing in working memory: Feature overwriting, not similarity-based competition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-357

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PROCESSING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; STORAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; COLOR VISION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; REACTION TIME; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549140782     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.3.346     Document Type: Article

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