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Asymmetric switch costs as sequential difficulty effects

Darryl W. Schneider Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Pages 1873-1894 | Received 18 Aug 2009, Accepted 11 Dec 2009, Published online: 15 Apr 2010

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