Proactive interference and practice effects in visuospatial working memory span task performance

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-91

  Blalock, Lisa Durrance ^a   McCabe, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; Practice; Proactive interference; Visuospatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROACTIVE INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 78751515244     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.537035     Document Type: Article

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