Learning to ignore distracters

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-66

  Rozek, Ellen ^a   Kemper, Susan ^a   McDowd, Joan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distraction; Eye tracking; Inhibition; Older adults; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; READING; VELOCITY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCULOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863611777     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025578     Document Type: Article

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