Visual distraction and visuo-spatial memory: A sandwich effect

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 357-363

  Tremblay, Sébastien ^a   Nicholls, Alastair P ^b   Parmentier, Fabrice B R ^c   Jones, Dylan M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SERIAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 19044395841     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210344000422     Document Type: Article

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