Performance on the traditional and the touch screen, tablet versions of the Corsi Block and the Tower of Hanoi tasks.
Psychologists routinely administer cognitive tasks to assess a range of mental abilities. In recent years, researchers and practitioners have employed new (i.e. digital) technologies to test cognitive performance, with tablet computer based tasks often replacing traditional versions. However, the ex...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 60; pp. 29 - 35 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jul2016
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