Switching Between Tasks of Unequal Familiarity: The Role of Stimulus-Attribute and Response-Set Selection

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 455-469

  Yeung, Nick ^a,c   Monsell, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; READING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0042352172     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.2.455     Document Type: Article

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