Do intensive studies of a foreign language improve associative memory performance?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Mårtensson, Johan ^a   Lövdén, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Education; Language; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865089867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00012     Document Type: Article

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