Task-evoked pupillometry provides a window into the development of short-term memory capacity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Johnson, Elizabeth L ^a   Miller Singley, Alison T ^a   Peckham, Andrew D ^a   Johnson, Sheri L ^a   Bunge, Silvia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Digit span; Pupillometry; Short term memory; Task evoked pupillary response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897949966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00218     Document Type: Article

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