High working memory performers have efficient eye movement control systems under reading span test

Journal of Eye Movement Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Azuma, Miyuki ^a   Ikeda, Takashi ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^a   Minamoto, Takehiro ^b   Osaka, Naoyuki ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Individual difference; Reading span test; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895920796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19958692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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