Proportion congruency effects: Instructions may be enough

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Entel, Olga ^a   Tzelgov, Joseph ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conflict adaptation; Control; Item specific congruency; Learning; Proportion congruent; Stroop

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907218694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01108     Document Type: Article

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