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- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 421-436
- Citations
- 187
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Bruce K. Britton,
Abraham Tesser
(1982).
Effects of prior knowledge on use of cognitive capacity in three complex cognitive tasks.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
, 21
(4)
, 421-436.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5371(82)90709-5
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- 10.1016/s0022-5371(82)90709-5