Impaired executive functioning in subclinical compulsive checking with ecologically valid stimuli in a working memory task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Harkin, Ben ^a   Rutherford, Hannah ^a   Kessler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compulsive checking; Ecological validity; Executive control; OCD; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960710417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00078     Document Type: Article

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