Age differences in overlapping-task performance: Evidence for efficient parallel processing in older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 505-519

  Allen, Philip A ^a   Lien, Mei Ching ^b   Murphy, Martin D ^a   Sanders, Raymond E ^a   Judge, Katherine S ^a   McCann, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; REFRACTORY PERIOD; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036717262     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.3.505     Document Type: Article

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