Analysis and interpretation of serial position data

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-151

  Olson, Andrew ^a   Romani, Cristina ^b   Caramazza, Alfonso ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dysgraphia; Graphemic buffer; Serial position; Short term memory; Spelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 77956416488     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2010.504580     Document Type: Article

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