What determines the specificity of conflict adaptation? A review, critical analysis, and proposed synthesis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Braem, Senne ^a   Abrahamse, Elger L ^a   Duthoo, Wout ^a   Notebaert, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognitive control; Congruency sequence effect; Task structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907091936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01134     Document Type: Article

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