Visual working memory capacity and proactive interference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Hartshorne, Joshua K ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 50549104211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002716     Document Type: Article

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