The role of biased competition in visual short-term memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1506-1517

  Shapiro, Kimron L ^a   Miller, Claire E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biased competition; Visual short term memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955855476     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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