More conservative go/no-go response criterion under high working memory load

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 110-117

  Doneva, Silviya P ^a   De Fockert, Jan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Go no go task; Response criterion; SART; Working memory.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSTAINED ATTENTION TO RESPONSE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ACCURACY; ATTENTION; GO NO GO TASK; LATENT PERIOD; MENTAL TASK; RESPONSE TIME; ATTENTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TEST; TIME;

EID: 84891273404     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2013.855780     Document Type: Article

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