Visual short-term memory operates more efficiently on boundary features than on surface features

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 346-364

  Alvarez, George A ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 42949156901     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.2.346     Document Type: Article

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