Wait a second: Brief delays in responding reduce focality effects in event-based prospective memory

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1432-1447

  Loft, Shayne ^a   Remington, Roger W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ongoing task costs; Prospective memory; Response delay; Target focality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880041116     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.750677     Document Type: Article

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