An account of performance in accessing information stored in long-term memory. A fixed-links model approach

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 126-133

  Altmeyer, Michael ^a   Schweizer, Karl ^a   Reiss, Siegbert ^a   Ren, Xuezhu ^a   Schreiner, Michael ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fixed links modeling; Long term memory; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875265890     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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