Starting slow: the effects of response-switching frequency on patterns of cardiovascular reactivity.
Research findings suggest that switching between competing response sets can be resource demanding. The current study focused on concurrent health-relevant physiological effects of task switching by assessing cardiovascular response at varying levels of switch frequency. The participants performed a...
| Publicado en: | Psychology, Health & Medicine Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 12 - 19 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2011
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