Selecting a Response in Task Switching: Testing a Model of Compound Cue Retrieval

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-136

  Schneider, Darryl W ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cuing; memory retrieval; priming; response selection; task switching

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 58449084927     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013744     Document Type: Article

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