Simultaneous Control of Attention by Multiple Working Memory Representations

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 887-898

  Beck, Valerie M ^a,b   Hollingworth, Andrew ^b   Luck, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; eye movements; visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865056082     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612439068     Document Type: Article

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