Effects of a secondary task on "implicit" sequence learning: Learning or performance?

Psychological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-109

  Shanks, David R ^a   Channon, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036561761     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-001-0081-2     Document Type: Article

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