Muscle or motivation? A stop-signal study on the effects of sequential cognitive control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Huizenga, Hilde M ^a   van der Molen, Maurits W ^a   Bexkens, Anika ^a   Bos, Marieke G N ^a   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behavior   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Ego depletion; Motivation; Resource depletion; Stimulus response; Stop signal task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867039313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00126     Document Type: Article

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