The effects of age and exogenous support on visual search performance

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-345

  McLaughlin, Paula M ^a   Murtha, Susan J E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953494534     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2010.484752     Document Type: Article

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