Weight and see: Loading working memory improves incidental identification of irrelevant faces

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Carmel, David ^a   Fairnie, Jake ^b   Lavie, Nilli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Incidental identification; Load theory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867130125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00286     Document Type: Article

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