Visual working memory capacity and stimulus categories: A behavioral and electrophysiological investigation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 501-513

  Diamantopoulou, Sofia ^a,b   Poom, Leo ^a   Klaver, Peter ^c,d   Talsma, Durk ^b,e,f  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Categories; Electrophysiology; Short term memory; Slow potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955037653     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2536-z     Document Type: Article

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