Task-goal switching: Influences of time, language, alertness and expertise

Almost 100 years ago, Jersild (1927) published his article “Mental Set and Shift”. He borrowed this title from a book of Hollingworth and Poffenberger (1919), according to whom “shifting back and forth from one mental set, one attitude or one task to another, is a relatively ineffective mode of work...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slama, Hichem
Other Authors: Peigneux, Philippe
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/229285