Sustained attention, attentional selectivity, and attentional capacity across the lifespan

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1570-1582

  McAvinue, Laura P ^a   Habekost, Thomas ^b   Johnson, Katherine A ^a   Kyllingsbæk, Søren ^b   Vangkilde, Signe ^b   Bundesen, Claus ^b   Robertson, Ian H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Cognitive control; Sustained attention; Theory of visual attention (TVA)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84870805990     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0352-6     Document Type: Article

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