Attention shifts or volatile representations: What causes binding deficits in visual working memory?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 771-792

  van Lamsweerde, Amanda E ^a   Beck, Melissa R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Visual short term memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84864974691     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.696560     Document Type: Article

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