The effect of task order predictability in audio-visual dual task performance: Just a central capacity limitation?

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Töllner, Thomas ^a   Strobach, Tilo ^a,b   Schubert, Torsten ^b   Müller, Hermann J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Central bottleneck; Decision making; Executive control; LRP; PCN

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; REFRACTORY PERIOD; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84898591864     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00075     Document Type: Article

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