Age Differences in Reading With Distraction: Sensory or Inhibitory Deficits?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 886-897

  Mund, Iris ^a   Bell, Raoul ^a   Buchner, Axel ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Inhibitory deficit theory; Perceptual deficit hypothesis; Selective attention; Sensory deficit hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RECOGNITION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650988088     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019508     Document Type: Article

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