Attention and visuospatial working memory share the same processing resources

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Jing ^a   Pratt, Jay ^b   Spence, Ian ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional resource; Dual task; Visuospatial working memory; Working memory resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867129741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00103     Document Type: Article

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