Does age change the distribution of visual attention? A comment on McCalley, Bouwhuis, and Juola (1995)

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages P187-P190

  Cornelissen, Frans W ^a   Kooijman, Aart C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034026021     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/55.3.P187     Document Type: Article

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