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Dual-Task Performance: Theoretical Analysis and an Event-Coding Account

By: Bernhard Hommel  
Open Access
|Sep 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.114 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 4, 2020
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Accepted on: Jul 7, 2020
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Published on: Sep 29, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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