Is advance reconfiguration in voluntary task switching affected by the design employed?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 850-857

  Liefooghe, Baptist ^a   Demanet, Jelle ^a   Vandierendonck, Andre ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advance reconfiguration; Preparation effects; Voluntary task switching; Within and Between subjects designs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67649716560     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802570994     Document Type: Article

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