The Role of Attention in the Maintenance of Feature Bindings in Visual Short-Term Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-55

  Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   Hollingworth, Andrew ^a   Luck, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; feature binding; visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39449121075     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.41     Document Type: Article

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