A review of the role of cue processing in task switching

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-14

  Jost, Kerstin ^a   De Baene, Wouter ^b   Koch, Iring ^a   Brass, Marcel ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advance preparation; Reconfiguration; Task cuing procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876377867     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000125     Document Type: Review

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