Aging, practice, and perceptual tasks: A diffusion model analysis

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 353-371

  Ratcliff, Roger ^a   Thapar, Anjali ^b   McKoon, Gail ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Perceptual learning; Practice; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33747071443     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.353     Document Type: Article

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