What models of verbal working memory can learn from phonological theory: Decomposing the phonological similarity effect

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-269

  Schweppe, Judith ^a   Grice, Martine ^b   Rummer, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulation; Auditory perception; Phonological features; Phonological similarity; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951575674     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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