Aging and performance on an everyday-based visual search task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 208-217

  Potter, Lauren M ^a   Grealy, Madeleine A ^b   Elliott, Mark A ^b   Andrés, Pilar ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Everyday based task; Middle age; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861711626     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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