Integrated cross-domain object storage in working memory: Evidence from a verbal-spatial memory task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2235-2251

  Morey, Candice C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Experimental and Work Psychology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Episodic buffer; Focus of attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349527976     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902763382     Document Type: Article

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