How checking breeds doubt: Reduced performance in a simple workingmemory task

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 504-512

  Harkin, Ben ^a   Kessler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binding; Checking; Episodic buffer; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REACTION TIME; SELF EFFICACY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349184415     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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