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Item-Position Binding Capacity Limits and Word Limits in Working Memory: A Reanalysis of Oberauer (2019)

By: Nelson Cowan  
Open Access
|Jan 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.193 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: May 7, 2021
Accepted on: Oct 4, 2021
Published on: Jan 6, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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