Aging, memory and visual search

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 288-304

  Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Boot, Walter R ^a   McCarley, Jason S ^a   Peterson, Matthew S ^b   Colcombe, Angela ^a   Scialfa, Charles T ^c  

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

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Memory; Saccades; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SACCADES;

EID: 33646815685     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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