Working Memory: Capacity Limitations

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 523-531

  Drew, T ^a   Vogel, E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00428-9     Document Type: Chapter

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