A bilateral advantage for storage in visual working memory

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-79

  Umemoto, Akina ^a   Drew, Trafton ^a   Ester, Edward F ^a   Awh, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral advantage; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILATERAL VISUAL FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL BIAS; SEQUENTIAL VISUAL STIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS VISUAL STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNILATERAL VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956227291     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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