The cost of accessing an object's feature stored in visual working memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Woodman, Geoffrey F ^a   Vecera, Shaun P ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Object based attention; Visual working memory; Working memory access

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 78650332586     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.521140     Document Type: Article

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