Dynamic updating of working memory resources for visual objects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8502-8511

  Gorgoraptis, Nikos ^a   Catalao, Raquel F G ^a   Bays, Paul M ^a   Husain, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958277272     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0208-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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