Effect of time of day on arithmetic fact retrieval in a number-matching task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 485-490

  Fabbri, Marco ^a   Natale, Vincenzo ^a   Adan, Ana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic activation; Interference effect; Subjective alertness; Time of day; Working memory efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPAIN; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPAIN; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 38149070878     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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