Age effects in coding tasks: Componential analysis and test of the sensory deficit hypothesis

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-18

  Gilmore, Grover C ^a   Spinks, Ruth A ^a,c   Thomas, Cecil W ^b,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding task; Contrast sensitivity; Intelligence; Sensory deficit hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CODING; CONFUSION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747047500     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.1.7     Document Type: Article

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