Attentive tracking disrupts feature binding in visual working memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 48-66

  Fougnie, Daryl ^a   Marois, René ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 58649106696     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802281337     Document Type: Article

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