Answers at your fingertips: Access to the Internet influences willingness to answer questions

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-102

  Ferguson, Amanda M ^a   McLean, David ^b   Risko, Evan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Memory performance; Metacognition; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ADULT; METACOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; METACOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940542003     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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