Are age-related changes in cognitive function driven by age-related changes in sensory processing?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 508-524

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Busey, Thomas A ^a   Craig, James ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Temporal masking; Temporal order; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875969779     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0406-9     Document Type: Article

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