Trade-off between capacity and precision in visuospatial working memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 211-222

  Roggeman, Chantal ^a   Klingberg, Torkel ^a   Feenstra, Heleen E M ^a   Compte, Albert ^b   Almeida, Rita ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION STORAGE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOSPATIAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891445534     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00485     Document Type: Article

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