How task errors affect subsequent behavior: Evidence from distributional analyses of task-switching effects

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 979-990

  Steinhauser, Marco ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 46449134630     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.5.979     Document Type: Article

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