Mixing costs in task shifting reflect sequential processing stages in a multicomponent task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1484-1494

  Steinhauser, Marco ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646824001     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193380     Document Type: Article

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