Object perception is selectively slowed by a visually similar working memory load

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Robinson, Alan ^a   Manzi, Alberto ^b,c   Triesch, Jochen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face processing; Object classification; Object recognition; Perceptual judgements; Priming; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FACE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049103166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.16.7     Document Type: Article

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