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| Are backward words special for older adults? | | Author(s) | Catherine Weir, Christine Bruun, Tracy Barber |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 1, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 145-149 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Performance ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This research examined how older adults differ from young adults on tasks in which colour words are presented in unusual forms (e.g. spelled backward, EULB for BLUE). Two experiments comparing older and younger adults confirmed that Stroop interference from lists of incongruent colour words was greater for older adults. Similar age effects were observed when the lists of words were presented in two unusual print orientations (upside-down; backward and upside-down). In contrast, no age effect was observed, when participants named colours on backward-word lists, as measured with a percentage interference score that corrected for individual differences in baseline (colour patches) naming times. Reading speed failed to account for all the interference effects in these data. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120244 A |
| Classmark | DA: DG: BB: SD6: 5H: 48: 7T |
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