Individual differences in working memory capacity and retrieval: A cue-dependent search approach

The Foundations of Remembering: Essays in Honor Of Henry L. Roediger, III

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 241-258

  Unsworth, Nash ^a   Engle, Randall W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837672     Document Type: Chapter

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