The Source of Execution-Related Dual-Task Interference: Motor Bottleneck or Response Monitoring?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1413-1426

  Bratzke, Daniel ^a   Rolke, Bettina ^a   Ulrich, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dual task performance; motor bottleneck; psychological refractory period; response monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350489844     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015874     Document Type: Article

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