The reliability and internal consistency of one-shot and flicker change detection for measuring individual differences in visual working memory capacity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 397-420

  Pailian, Hrag ^a   Halberda, Justin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEVICES; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940007871     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-014-0492-0     Document Type: Article

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