The time course of task switching: A speed-accuracy trade-off analysis

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1051-1058

  Samavatyan, Hossein ^a   Leth Steensen, Craig ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70349753194     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.7.1051     Document Type: Article

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