The dual implication of dual affordance: Stimulus-task binding and attentional focus changing during task preparation

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 251-259

  Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Bivalent stimuli; Cognitive control; Reaction time; Stimulus task binding; Task decision; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 46349084053     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.55.4.251     Document Type: Article

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