Delays without mistakes: Response time and error distributions in dual-task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Kamienkowski, Juan Esteban ^a   Sigman, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 52449115911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003196     Document Type: Article

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