Working memory capacity and disfluency effect: an aptitude-treatment-interaction study

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 89-105

  Lehmann, Janina ^a   Goussios, Christina ^a   Seufert, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptitude treatment interaction; Cognitive load theory; Disfluency effect; Disfluency theory; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946887261     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-015-9149-z     Document Type: Article

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