Involuntary retrieval in alphabet-arithmetic tasks: Task-mixing and task-switching costs

Psychological Research

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 252-261

  Koch, Iring ^a   Prinz, Wolfgang ^a   Allport, Alan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 15544379825     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-004-0180-y     Document Type: Article

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