Adult age differences in attention to semantic context

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 657-686

  Langley, Linda K ^a   Saville, Alyson L ^a   Gayzur, Nora D ^a   Fuentes, Luis J ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Context processing; Controlled expectancies; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749093259     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580802036928     Document Type: Article

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