What's on your mind: The influence of the contents of working memory on choice

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 726-737

  Weaver, Starla M ^a   Arrington, Catherine M ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive attention; Selective attention; Task switching; Voluntary task switching; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77949556946     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903137180     Document Type: Article

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