All updateable objects in working memory are updated whenever any of them are modified: Evidence from the memory updating paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 570-585

  Kessler, Yoav ^a   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Binding; Focus of attention; Processing storage tradeoff; Updating; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MINICOMPUTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MINICOMPUTERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 33745057742     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.570     Document Type: Article

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