Selective attention and response set in the Stroop task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 893-904

  Lamers, Martijn J M ^a,b   Roelofs, Ardi ^a,b   Rabeling Keus, Inge M ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; STROOP TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149313459     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.7.893     Document Type: Article

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