Visual working memory for line orientations and face identities

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1581-1591

  Jiang, Yuhong V ^a   Shim, Won Mok ^b   Makovski, Tal Makovski ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADULT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149384480     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.8.1581     Document Type: Article

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