Orienting attention to locations in mental representations

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 146-162

  Astle, Duncan Edward ^a,b   Summerfield, Jennifer ^b   Griffin, Ivan ^b   Nobre, Anna Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iconic memory; Partial report; Spatial attention; Visual short term memory; Visual working memory; VSTM

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856203430     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0218-3     Document Type: Article

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