Is there a general task switching ability?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-195

  Yehene, Einat ^a   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Intelligence; Structural equations modeling; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 35448980655     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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