The effects of age on sensory thresholds and temporal gap detection in hearing, vision, and touch

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 860-871

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Busey, Thomas A ^a   Craig, James C ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650156752     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.860     Document Type: Article

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