Spatial working memory load affects counting but not subitizing in enumeration

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1694-1709

  Shimomura, Tomonari ^a,b   Kumada, Takatsune ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Counting; Dual task performance; Subitizing; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961200233     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0135-5     Document Type: Article

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