Vivid imagers are better at detecting salient changes

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 218-228

  Rodway, Paul ^a   Gillies, Karen ^a   Schepman, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Implicit; Verbal cuing; Visual memory; VVIQ

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949565348     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.27.4.218     Document Type: Article

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