Aging and the development of automaticity in conjunction search

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Scialfa, Charles T ^c   Jenkins, Lisa ^a,b   Hamaluk, Eleano ^d   Skaloud, Petra ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LUMINANCE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0034058701     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/55.1.P27     Document Type: Article

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