Endogenous visuospatial precuing effects as a function of age and task demands

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 947-958

  Tellinghuisen, Donald J ^a   Zimba, Lynn D ^b   Robin, Donald A ^b  

^a AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030209699     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205496     Document Type: Article

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