Visual Short-Term Memory Benefit for Objects on Different 3-D Surfaces

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 653-662

  Xu, Yaoda ^a   Nakayama, Ken ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

binocular disparity; depth perception; stereo display; the binding problem; visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36248957041     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.653     Document Type: Article

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