Something from (almost) nothing: buildup of object memory from forgettable single fixations

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2413-2423

  Endress, Ansgar D ^a,b   Potter, Mary C ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory: Long term memory; Memory: Visual working and short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930511952     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0706-3     Document Type: Article

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