The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6657, 1997, Pages 279-284

  Luck, Steven J ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030778788     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36846     Document Type: Article

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