Effects of concurrent monitoring on cognitive load and performance as a function of task complexity

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 584-587

  Van Gog, Tamara ^a,b   Kester, Liesbeth ^b   Paas, Fred ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 79960704823     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1726     Document Type: Article

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