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| Age-related differences in object and location based inhibition of return of attention | | Author(s) | Christina S McCrae, Richard A Abrams |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 437-449 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An "inhibition of return" (IOR) of attention enables excess or already-gained information from being reconsidered when scanning a scene for required information. 4 experiments examined age-related differences in IOR of visual attention. Using static stimuli, both younger and older adults were slower to detect targets in previously cued objects, showing equivalent IOR. With objects that moved after they had been cued, young adults were slower to detect targets in the cued objects (compared with uncued ones), revealing object-based IOR, but older people were faster to detect targets in such objects, failing to demonstrate object-based IOR. Both age groups were slower to detect targets at the initially cued location (location-based IOR). Thus, age has a differential effect on IOR depending on the frame of reference of the inhibition. Inhibition for objects breaks down with age, but that for focus does not. This pattern of results is consistent with the view that there are specific inhibitory deficits in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111231 A |
| Classmark | DA: DG: BB: SD6: 7T |
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