The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: Trade-offs between immediate and delayed deployment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 799-812

  Bunting, Michael F ^a,c   Cowan, Nelson ^a   Colflesh, Greg H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 46449094938     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.4.799     Document Type: Article

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