Age-related change in visual working memory: A study of 55,753 participants aged 8-75

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Brockmole, James R ^a   Logie, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Binding; Internet; Objects; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874689013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00012     Document Type: Article

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