Tomatoes and apples or red and green lines: Are age-related interference effects based on competition among concepts or percepts?

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 346-358

  Titz, Cora ^a   Behrendt, Jörg ^b,c   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77953518817     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2010.484763     Document Type: Article

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