The impact of inhibition capacities and age on number-space associations

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 329-342

  Hoffmann, Danielle ^a   Pigat, Delia ^a   Schiltz, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Inhibition; Normal aging; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE INHIBITION CAPACITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENERAL PROCESSING SPEED; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERINDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIMON TASK; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODES EFFECT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STROOP TEST; STUDY DESIGN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; AGING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906315657     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-014-0601-9     Document Type: Article

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