The relationship between visual working memory and attention: Retention of precise colour information in the absence of effects on perceptual selection

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1628, 2013, Pages

  Hollingworth, Andrew ^a   Hwang, Seongmin ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Perceptual selection; Visual search; Visual short term memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

COLOR; INFORMATION; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; VISUAL CUE;

ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; PERCEPTUAL SELECTION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; PERCEPTUAL SELECTION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84896588122     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0061     Document Type: Article

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