Do mental processes share a domain-general resource?

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 384-390

  Vergauwe, Evie ^a   Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Camos, Valérie ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Domain generality; Resource sharing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951269995     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610361340     Document Type: Article

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