Still Clever After All These Years: Searching for the Homunculus in Explicitly Cued Task Switching

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 978-994

  Logan, Gordon D ^a   Schneider, Darryl W ^a   Bundesen, Claus ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cue encoding; endogenous control; priming; sequential comparison; task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34548202399     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.978     Document Type: Article

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