Age trends for failures of sustained attention

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Carriere, Jonathan S A ^a   Cheyne, J Allan ^a   Solman, Grayden J F ^a   Smilek, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Life span; Omission; RT; SART

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATURATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SUSTAINED ATTENTION TO RESPONSE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 77957260781     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019363     Document Type: Article

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