Investigating the role of conflict resolution in memory updating by means of the one-back choice RT task

Psychological Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 390-406

  Szmalec, Arnaud ^a   Demanet, Jelle ^a   Vandierendonck, André ^a   Verbruggen, Frederick ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BELGIUM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 62949229329     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0149-3     Document Type: Article

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