Does attentional selectivity in the flanker task improve discretely or gradually?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Hübner, Ronald ^a   Töbel, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous versus discrete; Diffusion models; Flanker task; Modeling; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870864372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00434     Document Type: Article

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