Aging and the development of automaticity in feature search

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-140

  Anandam, Benedict T ^a   Scialfa, Charles T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033373481     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.6.2.117.787     Document Type: Article

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