Lacking control over the trade-off between quality and quantity in visual short-term memory.

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is limited in the quantity and quality of items that can be retained over time. Importantly, these two mnemonic parameters interact: increasing the number of items in VSTM reduces the quality with which they are represented. Here, we ask whether this trade-off is unde...

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Main Authors: Alexandra M Murray, Anna C Nobre, Duncan E Astle, Mark G Stokes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3414487?pdf=render