Auditory Warning Signals Affect Mechanisms of Response Selection:Evidence from a Simon Task

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-97

  Fischer, Rico ^a   Plessow, Franziska ^a   Kiesel, Andrea ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessory stimuli; Response selection; Simon task; Warning signal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949715660     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000012     Document Type: Article

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