Visual search facilitation in repeated displays depends on visuospatial working memory

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-54

  Manginelli, Angela A ^a   Geringswald, Franziska ^a   Pollmann, Stefan ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual cueing; Implicit learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857294102     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000125     Document Type: Article

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