Dissociating restart cost and mixing cost in task switching

Psychological Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-416

  Poljac, Edita ^a,c   Koch, Iring ^b   Bekkering, Harold ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 62949162620     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0151-9     Document Type: Article

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