Short-term memory and the attentional blink: Capacity versus content

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 654-663

  Akyürek, Elkan G ^a,b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLINKING; VISION;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744492723     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195332     Document Type: Article

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