Effects of increased response dominance and contextual disintegration on the Stroop interference effect in older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 206-217

  West, Robert ^a,c   Baylis, Gordon C ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOLITION;

EID: 0031862903     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.2.206     Document Type: Article

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