Mechanisms of contextual control when contexts are informative to solve the task

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-19

  León, Samuel P ^a   Matias Gamez A ^a   Rosas, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Context switch effect; Discrimination; Human beings; Instrumental learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857010335     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5209/rev_SJOP.2012.v15.n1.37279     Document Type: Article

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