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Memory Load Effects

Memory Load Effects is a cognitive phenomenon in visual memory research that refers to the measurable decline in memory performance as a function of increasing amounts of visual information that must be encoded, maintained, and retrieved.

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The Expertise Reversal Effect

Slava Kalyuga, Paul Ayres, Paul Chandler et al. · Educational Psychologist · 2003 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control.

Nilli Lavie, Aleksandra Hirst, Jan W. de Fockert et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2004 · 1.8K citations

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High-resolution EEG mapping of cortical activation related to working memory: effects of task difficulty, type of processing, and practice

Alan Gevins · Cerebral Cortex · 1997 · 1.6K citations

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Frontal theta activity in humans increases with memory load in a working memory task

Ole Jensen, Claudia D. Tesche · European Journal of Neuroscience · 2002 · 1.4K citations

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The Capacity of Visual Short-Term Memory is Set Both by Visual Information Load and by Number of Objects

George A. Alvarez, Patrick Cavanagh · Psychological Science · 2004 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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  1. JW
    Jan W. de Fockert

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    10 publications · 3K citations

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  2. MD
    Mark D’Esposito

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    11 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. NL
    Nilli Lavie

    University College London, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. MH
    Masud Husain

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 905 citations

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  5. AB
    Alan Baddeley

    MRC Biostatistics Unit, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    112 publications

    14.7K citations

  2. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    22 h-index

    56 publications

    3.1K citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    18 h-index

    40 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    17 h-index

    37 publications

    2.5K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    41 publications

    2.5K citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    17 h-index

    46 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    17 h-index

    45 publications

    6.6K citations

  8. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    16 h-index

    40 publications

    6.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

    32 publications · 4.1K citations

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  2. Psychophysiology

    32 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

    29 publications · 2K citations

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  4. Cerebral Cortex

    25 publications · 6.5K citations

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  5. Journal of Neuroscience

    25 publications · 4.4K citations

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