Central and peripheral components of working memory storage

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1806-1836

  Cowan, Nelson ^a   Saults, J Scott ^a   Blume, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Central and peripheral processing; Domain general processing; Domain specific processing; Selective attention; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84925597280     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036814     Document Type: Article

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