Monitoring the capacity of working memory: Executive control and effects of listening effort

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 839-849

  Amichetti, Nicole M ^a   Stanley, Raymond S ^a   White, Alison G ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamemory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880725755     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0302-0     Document Type: Article

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