Inhibition of task set: Converging evidence from task choice in the voluntary task-switching paradigm

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1111-1116

  Lien, Mei Ching ^a   Ruthruff, Eric ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 59049093706     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1111     Document Type: Article

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