Understanding the object benefit in visual short-term memory: The roles of feature proximity and connectedness

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 815-828

  Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33845332398     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193704     Document Type: Article

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