What are task-sets: A single, integrated representation or a collection of multiple control representations?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Rangelov, Dragan ^a   Töllner, Thomas ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional selection; Electroencephalography; Executive control; Perceptual processing; Task sets; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885052274     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00524     Document Type: Article

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