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Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for s...

Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for s...

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Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for simple stimuli

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Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for simple stimuli

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2016-07, Vol.113 (27), p.7459-7464

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English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Visual working memory is the cognitive system that holds visual information active to make it resistant to interference from new perceptual input. Information about simple stimuli—colors and orientations—is encoded into working memory rapidly: In under 100 ms, working memory ‟fills up,” revealing a stark capacity limit. However, for real-world obje...

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Working memory is not fixed-capacity: More active storage capacity for real-world objects than for simple stimuli

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4941470

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4941470

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0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1520027113

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