The role of spatial working memory in inhibition of return: Evidence from divided attention tasks

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 970-981

  Castel, Alan D ^a,b   Pratt, Jay ^a,b   Craik, Fergus I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142228163     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194827     Document Type: Article

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