What's Easier: Doing what you want, or being told what to do? Cued versus voluntary language and task switching

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2167-2195

  Gollan, Tamar H ^a   Kleinman, Daniel ^a   Wierenga, Christina E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual language control; Cost free switches; Executive control; Natural language switching; Switching ability; Voluntary switching

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925717328     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038006     Document Type: Article

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