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dc.contributor.advisorRouder, Jeffrey Neil, 1966-eng
dc.contributor.authorThiele, Jonathaneng
dc.date.issued2011eng
dc.date.submitted2011 Falleng
dc.descriptionTitle from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 8, 2012).eng
dc.descriptionThe entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.eng
dc.descriptionThesis advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Roudereng
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.eng
dc.descriptionM. A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2011.eng
dc.description"December 2011"eng
dc.description.abstractIt is generally accepted that Working Memory is limited in capacity. However, there has been substantial debate over whether this limit in capacity is best described as a finite limit on the number of items that can be stored or a decline in the precision of memory as the number of memoranda increases. In an attempt to resolve this debate, ten mathematical models that incorporate the above assumptions were fit to the data from six experiments, encompassing 155 participants, using Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Measures of fit derived from the maximized likelihoods were used to compare the two descriptions of capacity. Overall, Working-Memory Capacity seems to be more accurately described as a limit on the number of items that can be held in memory.eng
dc.format.extentxii, 68 pageseng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/14576
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations. Theses. 2011 Theseseng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subjectworking memoryeng
dc.subjectdiscrete-slots modeleng
dc.subjectdistributed-resources modeleng
dc.titleResolving the conflict between the discrete-slots and distributed-resources models of working-memory capacityeng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychological sciences (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelMasterseng
thesis.degree.nameM.A.eng


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