Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks following severe closed-head injury.
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Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks following severe closed-head injury.
The authors used a predictable, externally cued task-switching paradigm to investigate executive control in a severe closed-head injury (CHI) population. Eighteen individuals with severe CHI and 18 controls switched between classifying whether a digit was odd or even and whether a letter was a consonant or vowel on every 4th trial. The target stimuli appeared in a circle divided into 8 equivale...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1931-1559,0894-4105
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.20.6.675