Age-related changes in matching novel objects across viewpoints

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1958-1965

  Pilz, Karin S ^a   Konar, Yaroslav ^a   Vuong, Quoc C ^b   Bennett, Patrick J ^a,c   Sekuler, Allison B ^a,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Mental rotation; Novel objects; Object recognition; Viewpoint

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052173823     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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