Training and transfer effects in task switching

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1470-1483

  Minear, Meredith ^a   Shah, Priti ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; TEACHING;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; TEACHING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 65849521367     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.336.8.1470     Document Type: Article

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