Multi-tasking in Working Memory

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 601-606

  Heathcote, Andrew ^a   Eidels, Ami ^a   Houpt, Joseph ^b   Colman, James ^c   Watson, Jason ^c   Strayer, David ^c  

^a School of Psychology   (Australia)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Multitasking; n back task, Aging, Gender differences; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; INTERFERENCE CONTROL; MEMORY CAPACITY; MULTI TASKING; N-BACK TASK; N-BACK TASK, AGING, GENDER DIFFERENCE; TARGET ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 85065721506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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