The importance of irrelevant-dimension variability in the Stroop flanker task

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 119-125

  Morein Zamir, Sharon ^a,b   Henik, Avishai ^a   Spitzer Davidson, Idit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036513895     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196266     Document Type: Article

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