Aging and Attention

Lifespan Cognition: Mechanisms of Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Kray, Jutta ^b  

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

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Divided attention; Goal directed attention; Lifespan; Selective attention; Stimulus driven attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920422915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195169539.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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