Limitless capacity: A dynamic object-oriented approach to short-term memory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Macken, Bill ^a   Taylor, John ^a   Jones, Dylan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language and memory; Limited capacity; Perceptual organization; Perceptual motor processing; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926627483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00293     Document Type: Review

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