Lacking Control over the Trade-Off between Quality and Quantity in Visual Short-Term Memory

Alexandra M. Murray; Anna C. Nobre; Duncan E. Astle; Mark G. Stokes

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041223

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Lacking Control over the Trade-Off between Quality and Quantity in Visual Short-Term Memory

Alexandra M. Murray,

Affiliation Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Anna C. Nobre,

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Duncan E. Astle,

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Mark G. Stokes

* E-mail: mark.stokes@ohba.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Lacking Control over the Trade-Off between Quality and Quantity in Visual Short-Term Memory

Alexandra M. Murray,
Anna C. Nobre,
Duncan E. Astle,
Mark G. Stokes

Published: August 8, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041223

About the Authors

Alexandra M. Murray

Affiliation Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anna C. Nobre

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Duncan E. Astle

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mark G. Stokes

* E-mail: mark.stokes@ohba.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM ACN DA MS. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM ACN MS. Wrote the paper:AM ACN MS.

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