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Does age change the distribution of visual attention?
— a comment on McCalley, Bouwhuis, and Juola (1995) | | Author(s) | Frans W Cornelissen, Aart C Kooijman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp P187-P190 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | "Age changes in the distribution of visual attention" by L T McCalley, D G Bouwhuis and J F Juola (Journals of Gerontology: series B, 1995) suggested differences between younger and older adults in the use of visual cues. Furthermore, they reported these differences could largely be attributed to diminished (peripheral) visual processing capacities of older people. The authors re-analyse McCalley et al's data, emphasising relative rather than absolute differences. They find when doing so, the data do not reveal differences in the way older people transiently allocate attention during visual search. Contrary to McCalley et al's conclusions, the similarity between the younger and older observers is therefore independent of the characteristics of the visual information. The authors are of the opinion that the data suggest that older people have foveal rather than peripheral visual processing difficulties. The results re-emphasise the importance of the analytical approach taken in ageing research. The difficulties and relevance of controlling and separating visual and attentional factors in age-related studies are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825228 A |
| Classmark | DA: BB: SD6: 3A:6KC |
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