Extensive practice does not eliminate human switch costs

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-197

  Stoet, Gusbert ^a   Snyder, Lawrence H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPULSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TASK SWITCHING; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 35548999741     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.7.3.192     Document Type: Article

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