Indirect assessment of visual working memory for simple and complex objects

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1132-1143

  Makovski, Tal ^a   Jiang, Yuhong V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

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

EID: 54949099586     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1132     Document Type: Article

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