Sources of errors on visuoperceptual tasks: Role of education, literacy, and search strategy

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 251-257

  Byrd, Desiree A ^a   Jacobs, Diane M ^b   Hilton, H John ^a,c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,c   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,c  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic influences; Error analysis; Literacy; Visuoperception

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENTON VISUAL RETENTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 20444385104     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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