Shift costs of predictable and unexpected set shifting in young and older adults

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 259-273

  Van Asselen, Marieke ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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