Age similarities in the inertial properties of attention

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 740-755

  Gottlob, Lawrence R ^a   Madden, David J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 0033125659     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205542     Document Type: Article

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