El papel de la memoria de trabajo en la atención selectiva visual

J W de Fockert1, G Rees, C D Frith

  • 1Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. : j.de-fockert@ucl.ac.uk

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 7, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

La memoria de trabajo (MM) ayuda a reducir la distracción al priorizar la información. La alta carga de WM aumentó la distracción de las caras y la actividad de la corteza visual, confirmando el papel de WM en la atención selectiva.

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