Markers of preparatory attention predict visual short-term memory performance

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1458-1465

  Murray, Alexandra M ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a   Stokes, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADAN; Attention; CDA; EDAN; Precision; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTERIOR ATTENTION DIRECTING NEGATIVITY; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTRALATERAL DELAY ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY ATTENTION DIRECTING NEGATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; LATE DIRECTING ATTENTION POSITIVITY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPARATORY ATTENTION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955803679     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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