The processing-storage relationship in working memory Span: From a perspective of a representation-based interference view

Psychologia

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Maehara, Yukio ^a   Saito, Satoru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Interference; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549090288     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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