Aging and the locus of the global precedence effect: A short review and new empirical data

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-268

  Bruyer, Raymond ^a   Scailquin, Jean Christophe ^a   Samson, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL PRECEDENCE EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SHORT SURVEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0043093829     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730303724     Document Type: Short Survey

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