Learned reward association improves visual working memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 841-856

  Gong, Mengyuan ^a   Li, Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Reward; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897959833     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035131     Document Type: Article

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