Age-related preservation of top-down control over distraction in visual search

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-272

  Costello, Matthew C ^a   Madden, David J ^a   Shepler, Anne M ^a   Mitroff, Stephen R ^a   Leber, Andrew B ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953531876     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2010.484719     Document Type: Article

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