Spatial memory guides task resumption

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1001-1010

  Ratwani, Raj M ^a   Trafton, J Gregory ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 56449085480     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802025791     Document Type: Article

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