How Strategic Is the Central Bottleneck: Can It Be Overcome by Trying Harder?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1368-1384

  Ruthruff, Eric ^a   Johnston, James C ^b   Remington, Roger W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GAME; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70350504131     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015784     Document Type: Article

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