Working through the pain: Working memory capacity and differences in processing and storage under pain

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-232

  Sanchez, Christopher A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Memory span; Pain; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL FUNCTION; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951695655     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.547861     Document Type: Article

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