Contextual cueing under working memory load: Selective interference of visuospatial load with expression of learning

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1103-1117

  Manginelli, Angela A ^a   Langer, Nadine ^a   Klose, Diana ^a   Pollmann, Stefan ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual cueing; Implicit learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881045238     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0466-5     Document Type: Article

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