Strategic capacity sharing between two tasks: Evidence from tasks with the same and with different task sets

Psychological Research

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 707-726

  Lehle, Carola ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78649943669     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0162-6     Document Type: Article

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