Obligatory encoding of task-irrelevant features depletes working memory resources

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Marshall, Louise ^a   Bays, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Feature selectivity; Resources; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878360021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.2.21     Document Type: Article

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