Discrete-slots models of visual working-memory response times

Psychological Review

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 873-902

  Donkin, Christopher ^a   Nosofsky, Robert M ^b   Gold, Jason M ^b   Shiffrin, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical modeling; Response times; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887537512     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034247     Document Type: Article

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