Search, enumeration, and aging: Eye movement requirements cause age-equivalent performance in enumeration but not in search tasks

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 226-240

  Watson, Derrick G ^a   Maylor, Elizabeth A ^a   Bruce, Lucy A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Enumeration; Eye movements; Subitization; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPETITION; ENUMERATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL SEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 22544441293     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.2.226     Document Type: Article

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