Training for executive control: Task coordination strategies and aging

Attention and Performance

Volumn 17, Issue , 1999, Pages 616-652

  Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Larish, John L ^a   Weber, Timothy A ^a   Bardell, Lynn ^a  

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