As Time Goes By: Temporal Constraints in Working Memory

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 413-419

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Camos, Valérie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cognitive development; cognitive load; time based resource sharing; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870738923     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412459513     Document Type: Article

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