Attention and aging

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 578-584

  Commodari, Elena ^a,b   Guarnera, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age related decay; Age related differences; Attentive skills; Cognitive functioning; Components of attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 60749104168     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324887     Document Type: Article

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