Why is information displaced from visual working memory during visual search?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 275-295

  Woodman, Geoffrey F ^a   Luck, Steven J ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased competition; Dual task paradigm; Visual attention; Visual search; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77449157266     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280902734326     Document Type: Article

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