The nature and position of processing determines why forgetting occurs in working memory tasks

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 772-777

  Jarrold, Christopher ^a   Tam, Helen ^a   Baddeley, Alan D ^b   Harvey, Caroline E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; LEARNING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 78651239678     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.6.772     Document Type: Article

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