Working memory interference during processing texts and pictures: Implications for the explanation of the modality effect

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-176

  Rummer, Ralf ^a   Schweppe, Judith ^a   Fürstenberg, Anne ^a   Seufert, Tina ^b   Brünken, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SENSORY MEMORY; VISUAL ACUITY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77956444480     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1546     Document Type: Article

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