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Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory

Journal of Cognition
Volume 8 (2025): Issue 1
By: Alessandra S. Souza  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.464 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 30, 2024
Accepted on: Sep 20, 2025
Published on: Sep 30, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
binding,
retro-cue,
attention,
colored shapes,
working memory unit

© 2025 Alessandra S. Souza, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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