Ocular measures of controlled processing: Examining the use of proactive cognitive control in the AX-CPT.
Assessing the use of proactive cognitive control is essential for understanding how thoughts and actions are regulated. The present study aimed to determine whether proactive control can be measured through patterns of eye movements during the cue–probe delay in a spatially modified AX-CPT. Across t...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 169 - 200 |
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