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| | Visual short term memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The introduction of stimuli which were hard to verbalize, and unlikely to be held in long-term memory, revolutionized the study of visual short-term memory (VSTM) in the early 1970s (Cermak, 1971; Phillips, 1974; Phillips and Baddeley, 1971). |
 | | VSTM is a type of short-term memory, but one limited to information within the visual domain. |
 | | It is important to note, however, that the use of the term "masking" here is somewhat misleading, as the temporal placement of the additional grating is such that it acts neither as a pattern mask nor as an energy mask for the test or reference stimuli (Breitmeyer, 1984). |
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