Context-Sensitive Adjustments of Cognitive Control: Conflict-Adaptation Effects Are Modulated by Processing Demands of the Ongoing Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 712-718

  Fischer, Rico ^a   Dreisbach, Gesine ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognitive control; conflict; sequence effects; Simon task

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 43549107029     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.3.712     Document Type: Article

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