Attention and Visuospatial Working Memory Share the Same Processing Resources

Attention and Visuospatial Working Memory Share the Same Processing Resources

Attention and visuospatial working memory (VWM) share very similar characteristics; both have the same upper bound of about four items in capacity and they recruit overlapping brain regions. We examined whether both attention and visuospatial working memory share the same processing resources using...

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Main Authors: Jing eFeng, Jay ePratt, Ian eSpence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Dual task
attentional resource
visuospatial working memory
working memory resource
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00103/full

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