Advance task preparation reduces task error rate in the cuing task-switching paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1272-1288

  Meiran, Nachshon ^a   Daichman, Alex ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33645747047     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193228     Document Type: Article

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