Information Foraging in the Unknown Patches across the Life Span

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1404-1409

  Chin, Jessie ^a   Payne, Brennan ^a   Battles, Andrew ^b   Fu, Wai Tat ^c   Morrow, Daniel ^a   Stine Morrow, Elizabeth A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive behavior; cognitive aging; Information foraging; information uptake

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; COGNITIVE AGING; FUNCTION OF TIME; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION UPTAKE; LIFESPANS; OLDER ADULTS; TASK ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULTS;

EID: 84878968055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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