Metacognition of visual short-term memory: Dissociation between objective and subjective components of VSTM

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Bona, Silvia ^a   Cattaneo, Zaira ^b,c   Vecchi, Tomaso ^c   Soto, David ^d   Silvanto, Juha ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distracter interference; Memory vividness; Visual awareness; Visual processing; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899713935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00062     Document Type: Article

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