Models provide specificity: Testing a proposed mechanism of visual working memory capacity development

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 419-439

  Simmering, Vanessa R ^a,b   Patterson, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Computational model; Developmental mechanism; Inhibition; Memory development; Neural field model; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869869068     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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