Evidence for age-related changes to temporal attention and memory from the choice time production task

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-310

  Gooch, Cynthia M ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a   Rakitin, Brian C ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b P and S   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Choice time production; Long term memory; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66349118089     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580802592771     Document Type: Article

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