Proactive Adjustments of Response Strategies in the Stop-Signal Paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 835-854

  Verbruggen, Frederick ^a,b   Logan, Gordon D ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

proactive control adjustments; reaction time models; response strategies; stop signal paradigm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67549144778     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012726     Document Type: Article

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