The rise and fall of memories: Temporal dynamics of visual working memory.
Visual working memory (VWM) is a cognitive system, which temporarily stores task-relevant visual information to enable interactions with the environment. In everyday VWM use, we typically decide how long we look to encode information, and how long we wait before acting on the memory. In contrast, VW...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 2406 - 2424 |
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