Object-based representations govern both the storage of information in visual short-term memory and the retrieval of information from it

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 316-323

  Quinlan, Philip T ^a   Cohen, Dale J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Multidimensional signal detection theory; Object based representations; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955762877     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0064-2     Document Type: Article

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