A snapshot is all it takes to encode object locations into spatial memory

Vision Research

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 133-145

  Haladjian, Harry H ^a   Mathy, Fabien ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Laboratoire Bases   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering analysis; Grouping; Short term memory; Spatial attention; Subitizing; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL COMPRESSION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920987001     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.12.014     Document Type: Article

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