Variation in Working Memory Capacity and Temporal-Contextual Retrieval From Episodic Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1532-1539

  Spillers, Gregory J ^a   Unsworth, Nash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term memory; Temporal context; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; READING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; READING;

EID: 82155179247     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024852     Document Type: Article

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