Short-term visual memory for contour curvature in a delayed discrimination task

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 122-128

  Sakai, Koji ^a  

^a Kyoto Koka Women's College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contour curvature; Decay; Discrimination threshold; Point of subjective equality; Short term visual memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037262406     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.t01-1-00040     Document Type: Article

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