Resolved but not forgotten: Stroop conflict dredges up the past

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Hazeltine, Eliot ^a   Mordkoff, J Toby ^a  

^a The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict adaptation; Congruency sequence effect; Contingency; Executive control; ISPC effect; Response conflict; Response conflict adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923385877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01327     Document Type: Article

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