The contribution of attentional lapses to individual differences in visual working memory capacity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1601-1616

  Adam, Kirsten C S ^a   Mance, Irida ^a   Fukuda, Keisuke ^b   Vogel, Edward K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; INDIVIDUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; VISION;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84933513791     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00811     Document Type: Article

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