More learned irrelevance than perseveration errors in rule shifting in healthy subjects

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 201-211

  Maes, J H R ^a   Damen, M D C ^a   Eling, P A T M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dimension; Discrimination learning; Healthy subjects; Learned irrelevance; Perseveration; Rule shifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1642502473     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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