Working Memory: State of the Science
- ISBN-10
- 0198842287
- ISBN-13
- 9780198842286
- Series
- Working Memory
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Nelson Cowan, Valérie Camos, Robert Logie
Description
Working memory refers to how we keep track of what we are doing moment to moment throughout our waking lives. This book brings together in one volume, state-of-the-science chapters written by the most productive and well known working memory researchers worldwide.
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