Encoding strategy accounts for individual differences in change detection measures of VSTM

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1476-1486

  Linke, A C ^a   Vicente Grabovetsky, A ^a   Mitchell, D J ^a   Cusack, R ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual differences; IQ; Memory capacity; Selective attention; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955863557     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.034     Document Type: Article

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