The distance effect in numerical memory-updating tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 675-685

  Lendínez, Cristina ^a   Pelegrina, Santiago ^a   Lechuga, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Working memory. Updating. Numerical distance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053317663     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0047-y     Document Type: Article

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