Dissociation of storage and rehearsal in verbal working memory: evidence from positron emission tomography.

A study was conducted, through the use of positron emission tomography, to provide further evidence for the hypothesis that the working memory system for verbal information has two components: a phonological store and a rehearsal mechanism that refreshes the contents of this store. In the first ex...

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Published in:	Psychological Science. Vol. 7; pp. 25 - 32
Main Authors:	Awh, Edward, Jonides, John, Smith, Edward E.
Format:	Article
Published:	HWW Temp January 1996
Subjects:	Brain function localization Short-term memory Word recognition Positron emission tomography
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