Testing the boundary conditions for processing irrelevant location information: The cross-task Simon effect

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 708-726

  Müsseler, Jochen ^a   Koch, Iring ^b   Wühr, Peter ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 26244439465     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440540000068     Document Type: Article

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