Sequence learning and selection difficulty

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-299

  Rowland, Lee A ^a,b   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Filtering cost; Implicit explicit distinction; Perceptual load; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SERIAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33747180074     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.2.287     Document Type: Article

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