Spatial and visuospatial working memory tests predict performance in classic multiple-object tracking in young adults, but nonspatial measures of the executive do not

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-311

  Trick, Lana M ^a   Mutreja, Rachna ^a   Hunt, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Task switching or executive control; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857607508     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0235-2     Document Type: Article

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