Visual working memory capacity for objects from different categories: A face-specific maintenance effect

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 719-731

  Wong, Jason H ^a   Peterson, Matthew S ^a   Thompson, James C ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Object recognition; Visual attention; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 51249103392     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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