Attending to unrelated targets boosts short-term memory for color arrays

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1498-1505

  Makovski, Tal ^a   Swallow, Khena M ^a   Jiang, Yuhong V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional boost effect; Dual task processing; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955849655     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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