Attentional and non-attentional systems in the maintenance of verbal information in working memory: The executive and phonological loops

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue November, 2014, Pages

  Camos, Valérie ^a   Barrouillet, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Executive loop; Phonological loop; Refreshing; Rehearsal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE LOOP; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHONOLOGICAL LOOP; RECALL; REVIEW; TIME BASED RESOURCE SHARING MODEL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933677148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00900     Document Type: Review

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