Dual-task interference in visual working memory: A limitation in storage capacity but not in encoding or retrieval

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1831-1841

  Fougnie, Daryl ^a   Marois, René ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549087484     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1831     Document Type: Article

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