Larger effect of aging on the perception of higher-order stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 943-950

  Habak, Claudine ^a   Faubert, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Higher order; Motion; Second order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS; VISION;

EID: 0034010352     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00235-7     Document Type: Article

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