Conflict-triggered top-down control: Default mode, last resort, or no such thing?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 567-587

  Bugg, Julie M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive control; Learning; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894454997     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035032     Document Type: Article

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