Short-term memory limitations in children: Capacity or processing deficits?

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• Publication year

  1976

• Venue

  Memory & Cognition

• Publication date

  1976-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3758/BF03213219PMID 21286982
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