Dual-Task Processing When Task 1 Is Hard and Task 2 Is Easy: Reversed Central Processing Order?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-136

  Leonhard, Tanja ^a   Fernández, Susana Ruiz ^a   Ulrich, Rolf ^a   Miller, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Dual tasking; Processing order; PRP paradigm; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ROTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951525516     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019238     Document Type: Article

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