Mixing measures: Testing an assumption of the attention network test

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1096-1107

  McConnell, Meghan M ^a   Shore, David I ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attention Network Test; Attention networks; Executive Function; Orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955830470     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0085-3     Document Type: Article

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