Task switching versus cue switching: Using transition cuing to disentangle sequential effects in task-switching performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 370-378

  Schneider, Darryl W ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive control; Performance; Sequential effects; Switch cost; Task switching; Transition cuing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 33947540102     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.370     Document Type: Article

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