Monitoring supports performance in a dual-task paradigm involving a risky decision-making task and a working memory task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Gathmann, Bettina ^a   Schiebener, Johannes ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^b   Brand, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 back task; Decision making under risk; Dual tasking; Executive functions; Game of Dice Task; GDT; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926461808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00142     Document Type: Article

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