High-capacity, transient retention of direction-of-motion information for multiple moving objects

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Shooner, Christopher ^a   Tripathy, Srimant P ^b   Bedell, Harold E ^a   Ögmen, Haluk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Memory; Motion 2D

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79952671278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.6.8     Document Type: Article

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