Working memory capacity predicts conflict-task performance

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1383-1400

  Gulbinaite, Rasa ^a   Johnson, Addie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conflict processing; Executive control; Individual differences; Simon task; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84902549178     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2013.863374     Document Type: Article

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