When and how less is more: reply to Tharp and Pickering

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-421

  DeCaro, Marci S ^a   Carlson, Krista D ^a   Thomas, Robin D ^a   Beilock, Sian L ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Categorization; Category learning; Hypothesis testing; Individual differences; Strategy selection; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 67349133599     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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