The Relationship of Handwriting Speed, Working Memory, Language Comprehension and Outlines to Lecture Note-taking and Test-taking among College Students

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-126

  Peverly, Stephen T ^a   Vekaria, Pooja C ^b   Reddington, Lindsay A ^c   Sumowski, James F ^d   Johnson, Kamauru R ^e   Ramsay, Crystal M ^f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^c Montclair Public Schools ^*  (United States)

^d KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e Brooklyn Friends School   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLLEGE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDY SKILLS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84872415459     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2881     Document Type: Article

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