Learning to control actions: Transfer effects following a procedural cognitive control computerized training

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Shahar, Nitzan ^a   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; KERNEL METHOD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKING MEMORY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84925834907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119992     Document Type: Article

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