Orienting Attention Within Visual Short-Term Memory: Development and Mechanisms

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 578-592

  Shimi, Andria ^a,b   Nobre, Anna C ^a   Astle, Duncan ^b   Scerif, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84896316300     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12150     Document Type: Article

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