Charting the trajectory of forgetting: Insights from a working memory period paradigm.
Working memory capacity is commonly measured in terms of its item span, and much less often in terms of its time span, or "period." The former measures how many items can be stored in working memory when carrying out episodes of concurrent processing. The latter complements this by determining the d...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1063 - 1076 |
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