Determinants of the benefit for consistent stimulus-response mappings in dual-task performance of four-choice tasks

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 734-756

  Proctor, Rober W ^a   Vu Kim Phuong, L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67650120470     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.734     Document Type: Article

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