Reward boosts working memory encoding over a brief temporal window

Visual Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 291-312

  Wallis, George ^a   Stokes, Mark G ^a   Arnold, Craig ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPISODIC MEMORY; EYE FIXATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84928938496     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2015.1013168     Document Type: Article

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