Visual Long-Term Memory Has the Same Limit on Fidelity as Visual Working Memory

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 981-990

  Brady, Timothy F ^a   Konkle, Talia ^a   Gill, Jonathan ^b   Oliva, Aude ^c   Alvarez, George A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

long term memory; short term memory; visual memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878806957     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612465439     Document Type: Article

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