Long-term memory guidance of visuospatial attention in a change-detection paradigm

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Rosen, Maya L ^a   Stern, Chantal E ^a   Somers, David C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Memory cueing; Visual attention; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899695731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00266     Document Type: Article

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