Cognitive interruption as an object of metacognitive monitoring: Feeling of difficulty and surprise

Trends and Prospects in Metacognition Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 171-208

  Touroutoglou, Alexandra ^a   Efklides, Anastasia ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6546-2_9     Document Type: Chapter

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