Is the binding of visual features in working memory resource-demanding?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 298-313

  Allen, Richard J ^a   Baddeley, Alan D ^a   Hitch, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Central executive; Episodic buffer; Feature binding; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745074666     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.135.2.298     Document Type: Article

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