Maintenance in visuo-spatial working memory

Psychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 90-101

  Burin, Debora I ^a   Irrazabal, Natalia ^a   Quinn, J Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interference; Similarity; Spatial attention; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649025212     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2007.90     Document Type: Article

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