No role for motor affordances in visual working memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-13

  Pecher, Diane ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Grounded cognition; Motor affordances; Motor system; Premotor cortex; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HAND; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VISION;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HAND; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84871299663     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028642     Document Type: Article

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