Stress and working memory: Between-person and within-person relationships

Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 73-94

  Sliwinski, Martin ^a   Smyth, Joshua ^a   Stawski, Robert S ^a   Wasylyshyn, Christina ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69749127708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511720413.005     Document Type: Chapter

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