Binding Facilitates Attention Switching Within Working Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 959-969

  Bao, Min ^a,b   Li, Zhi Hao ^c   Zhang, Da Ren ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; binding; location based; object based; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 34548822130     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.5.959     Document Type: Article

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