The mental wormhole: Internal attention shifts without regard for distance

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1199-1215

  Tanoue, Ryan T ^a   Berryhill, Marian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention: Interactions with memory; Memory: Visual working and short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864562104     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0305-0     Document Type: Article

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