Overriding Age Differences in Attentional Capture With Top-Down Processing

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-232

  Whiting, Wythe L ^a   Madden, David J ^b   Babcock, Katherine J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; attentional capture; perception; reaction time; selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34548408736     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.2.223     Document Type: Article

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