The number and quality of representations in working memory

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1434-1441

  Zhang, Weiwei ^a   Luck, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

short term memory; visual attention; visual memory; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555131832     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417006     Document Type: Article

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