Dissociable roles of different types of working memory load in visual detection

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 919-924

  Konstantinou, Nikos ^a,b   Lavie, Nilli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive cognitive control; Perceptual load; Selective attention; Visual detection; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887522943     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033037     Document Type: Article

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