A working memory test battery for MATLAB

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 571-585

  Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^b   Yang, Lee Xieng ^c   Ecker, Ullrich K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOFTWARE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77955912839     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.2.571     Document Type: Article

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