The capacity of visual short-term memory is not a fixed number of objects

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-195

  Davis, Greg ^a,c   Holmes, Amanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23044480482     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195307     Document Type: Article

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