Asymmetrical access to color and location in visual working memory

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1902-1913

  Rajsic, Jason ^a   Wilson, Daryl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Precision; Spatial working memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84919947953     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0723-2     Document Type: Article

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