Attentional demand influences strategies for encoding into visual working memory

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-448

  Mayer, Jutta ^a   Bittner, Robert ^a   Linden, David ^a,b   Nikolić, Danko ^c,d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Encoding strategies; Interference; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049111787     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0007-2     Document Type: Article

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