Comment on "Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision"
Open Access
- 13 February 2009
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 323 (5916), 877
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166478
Abstract
Bays and Husain (Reports, 8 August 2008, p. 851) reported that human working memory, the limited information currently in mind, reflects resources distributed across all items in an array. In an alternative interpretation, memory is limited to several well-represented items. We argue that this item-limit model fits the extant data better than the distributed-resources model and is more interpretable theoretically.Keywords
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