Iconic memory requires attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Persuh, Marjan ^a   Genzer, Boris ^a   Melara, Robert D ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Consciousness; Iconic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84864249950     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00126     Document Type: Article

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