Disentangling working memory from multiple‐object tracking: Evidence from dual‐task interferences.
Multiple object tracking (MOT) is generally regarded as a pure attention‐consuming task that draws heavily on attention resources. In the present study, we adopted a cross‐channel visual‐audio dual‐task paradigm, i.e., the MOT task combined with the concurrent auditory N‐back working memory task, to...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 437 - 453 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2023
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