Strategies of flanker coprocessing in single and dual tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-123

  Hübner, Ronald ^a   Lehle, Carola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual tasks; Flanker task; Parallel processing; Processing strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 33847221845     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.1.103     Document Type: Article

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