Awareness is necessary for extracting patterns in working memory but not for directing spatial attention

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1085-1090

  Hsieh, Po Jang ^a   Colas, Jaron T ^b  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Consciousness; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874419548     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028345     Document Type: Article

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