Multitasking: Multiple, domain-specific cognitive functions in a virtual environment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1561-1574

  Logie, Robert H ^a   Trawley, Steven ^a   Law, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multitasking; Spatial cognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155197353     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0120-1     Document Type: Article

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