New insights into an old problem: Distinguishing storage from processing in the development of working memory

Cognitive Development and Working Memory: A Dialogue between Neo-Piagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-150

  Cowan, Nelson ^a   Morey, Candice C ^b   AuBuchon, Angela M ^a   Zwilling, Christopher E ^c   Gilchrist, Amanda L ^a   Saults, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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