Flexible attention allocation to visual and auditory working memory tasks: Manipulating reward induces a trade-off

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 458-472

  Morey, Candice Coker ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^b   Morey, Richard D ^a   Rouder, Jeffery N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Change detection; Rewards; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; HEARING; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REWARD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REWARD;

EID: 79951951805     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0031-4     Document Type: Article

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