Estimated capacity of object files in visual short-term memory is not improved by retrieval cueing

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Saiki, Jun ^a   Miyatsuji, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Change detection; Feature binding; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 64049088638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.3.16     Document Type: Article

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