Attentional capture and aging: Implications for visual search performance and oculomotor control

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-154

  Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Hahn, Sowon ^a   Irwin, David E ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VOLITION;

EID: 0032953452     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.14.1.135     Document Type: Article

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