What Checkers Actually Check: An Eye Tracking Study of Inhibitory Control and Working Memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Harkin, Ben ^a   Miellet, Sebastien ^b   Kessler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITORY CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84866714269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044689     Document Type: Article

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