Introspective judgments predict the precision and likelihood of successful maintenance of visual working memory

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Rademaker, Rosanne L ^a,b   Tredway, Caroline H ^a   Tong, Frank ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conscious perception; Metacognition; Orientation discrimination; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878195764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.13.21     Document Type: Article

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