Training Reveals the Sources of Stroop and Flanker Interference Effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Antao ^a,b   Tang, Dandan ^a   Chen, Xuefei ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORD RECOGNITION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885402871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076580     Document Type: Article

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