The role of visual working memory (VWM) in the control of gaze during visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 936-949

  Hollingworth, Andrew ^a   Luck, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650175359     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.936     Document Type: Article

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