Orienting Attention in Visual Working Memory Reduces Interference From Memory Probes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 369-380

  Makovski, Tal ^a,b   Sussman, Rachel ^a   Jiang, Yuhong V ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

change detection; memory decay; memory interference; visual attention; visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 40949152001     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.2.369     Document Type: Article

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