A psychometric measure of working memory capacity for configured body movement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Ying Choon ^a,b   Coulson, Seana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84898638857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084834     Document Type: Article

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