How chunks form in long-term memory and affect short-term memory limits

Interactions Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-107

  Cowan, Nelson ^a   Chen, Zhijian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203938966     Document Type: Chapter

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