Dissociating distractor-filtering at encoding and during maintenance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 960-967

  McNab, Fiona ^a,b   Dolan, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distraction; Distractor filtering; Working memory; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BENSERAZIDE; LEVODOPA;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY GATING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASCORBIC ACID; ATTENTION; BENSERAZIDE; CELL PHONES; CONTROL GROUPS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PLACEBO EFFECT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY GATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901596764     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036013     Document Type: Article

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