Lacking control over the trade-off between quality and quantity in visual short-term memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Murray, Alexandra M ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a,b   Astle, Duncan E ^a,c   Stokes, Mark G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864702605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041223     Document Type: Article

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