Influence of task-irrelevant onset distractors on the visual search performance of young and old adults

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-60

  Cassavaugh, Nicholas D ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Irwin, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

EID: 0037368592     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.1.44.13453     Document Type: Article

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