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| Effects of stimulus integrality on visual attention in older and younger adults: a quantitative model-based analysis | | Author(s) | W Todd Maddox, Jason R Huntington, J Vincent Filoteo |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 3, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 472-485 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Older people ; Young people ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this study, 21 older and 21 younger adults were administered a series of visual attention tasks. A series of quantitative models was applied to each observer's data to determine whether he or she performed optimally or suboptimally or showed a deficit-in-attentional processing. The results suggested that: older and younger observers were affected equally by the integrality-separability manipulation; there are no age-related differences in selective attention performance for either integral or separable-dimension stimuli; there are no age-related differences in dimensional integration performance with separable-dimension stimuli; and older observers were more likely to be suboptimal when asked to integrate information from integral-dimension stimuli. Implications for current theories of attentional processing in normal ageing are discussed. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981113407 A |
| Classmark | DA: B: SB: 7T |
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