Primacy and recency effects as indices of the focus of attention

Ongoing debate surrounds the capacity and characteristics of the focus of attention. The present study investigates whether a pattern of larger recency effects and smaller primacy effects reported in previous working memory studies is specific to task conditions used in those studies, or generalizes...

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Main Authors: Alexandra B. Morrison, Andrew R. A. Conway, Jason M. Chein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00006/full