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    Acquisition of a Memory Skill

    Author(s): K. Anders Ericsson, William G. Chase and Steve Faloon


    Source: Science, New Series, Vol. 208, No. 4448 (Jun. 6, 1980), pp. 1181-1182
    Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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