Is visual attention required for robust picture memory?

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 955-964

  Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a,b   Horowitz, Todd S ^a,b   Michod, Kristin O ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task interference; Gist; Picture memory; Scene processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847646355     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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