Cognitive and attentional changes with age: Evidence from attentional blink deficits

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-153

  Maciokas, James B ^a   Crognale, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BLINKING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037396397     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730303715     Document Type: Article

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