A primitive memory system for the deployment of transient attention

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 711-724

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a,b   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 0141652896     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194808     Document Type: Article

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