Task switching under predictable and unpredictable circumstances

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1776-1790

  Andreadis, Nikolaos ^a   Quinlan, Philip T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958514646     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1776     Document Type: Article

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