Determinants of congruency sequence effects without learning and memory confounds

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2022-2037

  Weissman, Daniel H ^a   Jiang, Jiefeng ^b   Egner, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon's Mechanical Turk; Conflict adaptation; Congruency sequence effect; Gratton effect; Sequential modulations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907094580     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: 19391277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037454     Document Type: Article

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