Response Coding and Visuomotor Transformation in the Simon Task: The Role of Action Goals

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1269-1282

  Buhlmann, Ivonne ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^b   Wascher, Edmund ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

effect functions; LRP; response coding; Simon effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38349171277     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1269     Document Type: Article

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