Effects of figurai complexity and target-distracter similarity on decay rate in short-term visual memory

Japanese Journal of Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 36-43

  Sakai, Koji ^a   Inui, Toshio ^b  

^a Kyoto Koka Women's College   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decay rate; Figural complexity; Memory noise; Short term visual memory; Target distracter similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 0035320244     PISSN: 00215236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.72.36     Document Type: Article

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