Age-related equivalence of identity suppression in the Stroop color-word task

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-29

  Kieley, James M ^a   Hartley, Alan A ^b  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030904710     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.1.22     Document Type: Article

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