The Role of Task-Related Learned Representations in Explaining Asymmetries in Task Switching

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Barutchu, Ayla ^a   Becker, Stefanie I ^b   Carter, Olivia ^c   Hester, Robert ^c   Levy, Neil L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARITHMETIC SWITCHING TASK; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL PRIMING; REACTION TIME; SYMBOL SWITCHING TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84876185402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061729     Document Type: Article

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