When the ignored gets bound: Sequential effects in the flanker task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Davelaar, Eddy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognitive control; Conflict monitoring; Episodic binding; Flanker task; Sequential dependencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874699837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00552     Document Type: Article

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