Speeded Paper-Pencil Sustained Attention and Mental Speed Tests: Can Performances Be Discriminated?

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 205-216

  Krumm, Stefan ^a   Schmidt Atzert, Lothar ^a   Michalczyk, Kurt ^a   Danthiir, Vanessa ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

mental speed; perceptual speed; sustained attention; test

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749177568     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.29.4.205     Document Type: Article

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