Exogenous attention influences visual short-term memory in infants

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 490-501

  Ross Sheehy, Shannon ^a   Oakes, Lisa M ^b   Luck, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953781405     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00992.x     Document Type: Article

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