Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2008-05-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/nature06860PMID 18385672PMCID PMC2588137
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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