Brief report: Manipulation of task difficulty in inhibitory control tasks

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Lindqvist, Sofia ^a   Thorell, Lisa B ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flanker; Go No Go; Inhibition; Stop Signal; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FLANKER TASK; GO TASK; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NO GO TASK; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOP SIGNAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 57749104793     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297040701793647     Document Type: Article

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