Cognitive processing in new and practiced discrete keying sequences

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2010, Pages

  Verwey, Willem B ^a   Abrahamse, Elger L ^a   de Kleine, Elian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chunking; Discrete sequence production task; Keying sequences; Motor skills; Secondary task; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866753423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00032     Document Type: Article

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