Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: Individual differences in voluntary saccade control

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1302-1321

  Unsworth, Nash ^a   Schrock, Josef C ^b   Engle, Randall W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MARYVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VOLITION;

EID: 7544224785     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.6.1302     Document Type: Article

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