Storage and binding of object features in visual working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1622-1631

  Bays, Paul M ^a   Wu, Emma Y ^a   Husain, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binding; Joint distribution; Mixture model; Visual attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PROBABILITY; RECALL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955788996     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.023     Document Type: Article

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