Is visual short-term memory object based? Rejection of the "strong-object" hypothesis

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1055-1067

  Olson, Ingrid R ^a,c   Jiang, Yuhong ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

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

EID: 0036777234     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194756     Document Type: Article

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