Estimating the executive demands of a one-back choice reaction time task by means of the selective interference paradigm

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1116-1139

  Szmalec, Arnaud ^a   Vandierendonck, André ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547503011     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210600896484     Document Type: Article

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