Reheating breakfast: Age and multitasking on a computer-based and a non-computer-based task.
Computer-based assessments are popular means to measure individual differences, including age differences, in cognitive ability, but are rarely tested for the extent to which they correspond to more realistic behavior. In the present study, we explored the extent to which performance on an existing...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 55; pp. 432 - 439 |
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Elsevier B.V.
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