A deeper look at gender difference in multitasking: Gender-specific mechanism of cognitive control

5th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2009

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 13-17

  Dongning, Ren ^a,b   Zhou, Haotian ^c   Fu, Xiaolan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Gender difference; Hunter gatherer hypothesis; Multitasking

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE CONTROL; COGNITIVE TESTS; EMPIRICAL DATA; GENDER DIFFERENCE; GENDER DIFFERENCES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SHARP CONTRAST;

TESTING;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 77950566115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2009.542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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