Short-term memory stages in sign vs. speech: The source of the serial span discrepancy

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-66

  Hall, Matthew L ^a   Bavelier, Daphne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digit span; Phonological loop; Short term memory; Sign language; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH;

ADULT; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; SERIAL LEARNING; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955891145     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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