Flexible working memory representation of the relationship between an object and its location as revealed by interactions with attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1525-1533

  Sala, Joseph B ^a   Courtney, Susan M ^b,c  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 73449107520     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1525     Document Type: Article

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