Tracking object number or information load in visual working memory: Revisiting the cognitive implication of contralateral delay activity

Biological Psychology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 296-302

  Gao, Zaifeng ^a   Yin, Jun ^a   Xu, Haokui ^a   Shui, Rende ^a   Shen, Mowei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contralateral delay activity; Information load; Object number; Representational resolution; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTRALATERAL DELAY ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955907404     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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