Eye movement correlates of younger and older adults' strategies for complex addition

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-278

  Green, Heather J ^a,b   Lemaire, Patrick ^a   Dufau, Stéphane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive arithmetic; Eye movements; Processing carries; Strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447120774     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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