Bottom-Up Influences on Voluntary Task Switching: The Elusive Homunculus Escapes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 348-362

  Yeung, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive control; executive control; task switching; voluntary action

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649230314     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017894     Document Type: Article

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