Variation in strategy use across measures of verbal working memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 922-936

  Morrison, Alexandra B ^a   Rosenbaum, Gail M ^a   Fair, Damien ^b   Chein, Jason M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mnemonics; Short term memory; Strategy; Working memory

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCIENTIST; SELF REPORT; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962177965     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-016-0608-9     Document Type: Article

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