The neural mechanisms of visual short-term memory capacity

The amount of information that we can extract from a visual scene and maintain in visual short-term memory (VSTM) over a short period of time is severely limited. VSTM is capacity limited in terms of the rate of consolidating information into VSTM, as well as the total amount of information that can...

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Main Author: Todd, James Jay
Other Authors: René Marois
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2008
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12112008-103342/