Discrete capacity limits in visual working memory
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Discrete capacity limits in visual working memory.
The amount of information we can actively maintain 'in mind' is very limited. This capacity limitation, known as working memory (WM) capacity, has been of great interest because of its wide scope influence on the variety of intellectual abilities. Recently, there has been an ongoing debate about how this capacity should be best characterized. One viewpoint argues that WM capacity is allocated i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Neurobiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0959-4388
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.03.005