Binding or prioritization: The role of selective attention in visual short-term memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 759-799

  Yeh, Yei Yu ^a   Yang, Cheng Ta ^a   Chiu, Yu Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 22244457058     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000490     Document Type: Article

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