Is performance in task-cuing experiments mediated by task set selection or associative compound retrieval?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1002-1024

  Forrest, Charlotte L D ^a   Monsell, Stephen ^a   McLaren, Ian P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditional discrimination; Connectionist modeling; Task cuing; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903146400     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035981     Document Type: Article

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