Individual differences in multiple types of shifting attention

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1730-1743

  Wager, Tor D ^a   Jonides, John ^b   Smith, Edward E ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34247273434     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195934     Document Type: Article

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