Flexibility in visual working memory: Accurate change detection in the face of irrelevant variations in position

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-28

  Woodman, Geoffrey F ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^b   Luck, Steven J ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Location changes; Short term memory; Spatial location; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STANDARD CHANGE DETECTION TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84856106614     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.630694     Document Type: Article

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