Wisconsin Card Sorting in adolescents: Analysis of performance, response times and heart rate

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-257

  Somsen, Riek J M ^a   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^a   Jennings, J Richard ^b   Van Beek, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback inspection time; Frontal lobe function; Heart rate responses; Normal adolescents; Stimulus response time; Supervisory attention; WCST PCA analysis; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034183852     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-6918(00)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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