Relationship Between Measures of Working Memory Capacity and the Time Course of Short-Term Memory Retrieval and Interference Resolution

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 383-397

  Öztekin, Ilke ^a   McElree, Brian ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interference; recent negative; short term item recognition; speed accuracy trade off procedure; working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649220552     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018029     Document Type: Article

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