Increasing the difficulty of response selection does not increase the switch cost

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-327

  Liefooghe, Baptist ^a   Verbruggen, Frederick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Executive control; Response selection; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 74349128089     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016725     Document Type: Article

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