Binding serial order to representations in working memory: A spatial/verbal dissociation

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Gmeindl, Leon ^a   Walsh, Megan ^a   Courtney, Susan M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Capacity; Configuration; Domain specific; Recall; Recognition; Short term memory; Span; Temporal order; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SERIAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952070614     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0012-9     Document Type: Article

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