Reduced OSM for long duration targets: Individuation or items loaded into VSTM?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1541-1553

  Guest, Duncan ^a,b   Gellatly, Angus ^a   Pilling, Michael ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Individuation; Masking; Object substitution masking; OSM; Visual short term memory; VSTM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874749121     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027031     Document Type: Article

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