Expectations and experience: Dissociable bases for cognitive control?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1349-1373

  Bugg, Julie M ^a   Diede, Nathaniel T ^a   Cohen Shikora, Emily R ^a   Selmeczy, Diana ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Color word correlations; Conflict monitoring; Conscious expectations; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84941189906     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000106     Document Type: Article

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