How verbal memory loads consume attention

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 829-836

  Chen, Zhijian ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RECALL; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349227430     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.829     Document Type: Article

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