Top-down versus bottom-up: When instructions overcome automatic retrieval

Psychological Research

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 611-617

  Waszak, Florian ^a,c   Pfister, Roland ^b   Kiesel, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881546867     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0459-3     Document Type: Article

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