No Evidence for Temporal Decay in Working Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1545-1551

  Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

forgetting; short term memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 71649101714     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017010     Document Type: Article

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