On perfect working-memory performance with large numbers of items

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 958-963

  Thiele, Jonathan E ^a   Pratte, Michael S ^b   Rouder, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Working memory; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053106283     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0108-7     Document Type: Article

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