Identifying stimuli of different perceptual categories in pure and mixed blocks of trials: Evidence for stimulus-driven switch costs

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 173-205

  Los, Sander A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mixing costs; Switch costs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

CUES; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033227746     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0001-6918(99)00031-1     Document Type: Article

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