Individual differences in cognitive-flexibility: The influence of spontaneous eyeblink rate, trait psychoticism and working memory on attentional set-shifting

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-125

  Tharp, Ian J ^a,b   Pickering, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive control; Dopamine; Individual differences; Personality; Psychoticism; Set shifting; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EYELID REFLEX; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSEVERATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79151481646     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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