Behavioural evidence for separating components within visuo-spatial working memory

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-181

  Darling, Stephen ^a   Della Sala, Sergio ^a   Logie, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Spatial memory; Visual memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547837361     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-007-0171-1     Document Type: Article

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