Interference in immediate spatial memory.
It has been suggested that maintenance in visuospatial immediate memory involves implicit motor processes that are analogous to the articulatory loop in verbal memory. An alternative account, which is explored here, is that maintenance is based on shifts of spatial attention. In four experiments,...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 22; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
January 1994
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