The sensory strength of voluntary visual imagery predicts visual working memory capacity

Journal of Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Keogh, Rebecca ^a   Pearson, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Memory capacity; Mental imagery; Perceptual disruption; Verbal working memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916208413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/14.12.7     Document Type: Article

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