The joint flanker effect: Sharing tasks with real and imagined co-actors

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 371-385

  Atmaca, Silke ^a   Sebanz, Natalie ^b   Knoblich, Günther ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action anticipation; Joint action; Shared representations; Task sharing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ERIKSEN FLANKER TASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGINATION; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958201503     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2709-9     Document Type: Article

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