Detailed sensory memory, sloppy working memory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2010, Pages

  Sligte, Ilja G ^a   Vandenbroucke, Annelinde R E ^a   Scholte, H Steven ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fragile VSTM; Iconic memory; Resolution; Visual detail; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955167776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00175     Document Type: Article

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