Age-related slowing: Perceptuomotor, decision, or attention decline?

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-189

  Godefroy, Olivier ^a   Roussel, Martine ^a   Despretz, Pascal ^a   Quaglino, Veronique ^b   Boucart, Muriel ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749237166     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610731003613615     Document Type: Article

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