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Interference in short-term memory: The magical number two (or three) in sentence processing
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lewis, R. L.
- Venue
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Published
- 1996-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-115
- ISSN
- 0090-6905 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6555
- OpenAlex
- W2000412342
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 71
- FWCI
- 4.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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