Visual Sensory Memory

Visual Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Irwin, David E ^a   Thomas, Laura E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Informational persistence; Visible persistence; Visual memory; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953290403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305487.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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