Automatic vigilance for task-related information: Perseverance after failure and inhibition after success

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-352

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038586540     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194392     Document Type: Article

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