One executive function never comes alone: monitoring and its relation to working memory, reasoning, and different executive functions

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-29

  Gathmann, Bettina ^a   Brand, Matthias ^a,b   Schiebener, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Balanced Switching Task; Cognitive control; Executive functions; Monitoring; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING;

ADULT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; THINKING;

EID: 84978152323     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-016-0773-6     Document Type: Article

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