Working memory capacity and retrieval from long-term memory: The role of controlled search

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 242-254

  Unsworth, Nash ^a   Brewer, Gene A ^b   Spillers, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873242285     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0261-x     Document Type: Article

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