Timing of reflexive visuospatial orienting in young, young-old, and old-old adults

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1546-1561

  Langley, Linda K ^a   Friesen, Chris Kelland ^a   Saville, Alyson L ^a   Ciernia, Annie T ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Attentional control settings; Spatial orienting; Young old and old old

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; VOLITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959238087     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0108-8     Document Type: Article

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