The measurement of working memory capacity

Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 393-408

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452233529.n22     Document Type: Chapter

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