Overwriting and rebinding: Why feature-switch detection tasks underestimate the binding capacity of visual working memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 141-159

  Alvarez, George A ^a   Thompson, Todd W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding; Cued recall; Feature switch; Overwriting; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 58649103999     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802265496     Document Type: Article

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