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| Human aging and duration judgments: a meta-analytic review | | Author(s) | Richard A Block, Dan Zakay |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 4, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 584-596 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young people ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Differences in duration judgements made by younger and older adults were examined in this study. Previous research is unclear about whether such differences exist and, if so, how they may be explained. The meta analyses revealed substantial age-related differences. Older adults gave larger verbal estimates and made shorter productions of duration than did younger adults. There were no age-related differences in reproduction of duration or in psychophysical slope relating judged and target duration. Older adults' duration estimates were more variable than were those of younger ones. Findings are discussed in terms of pacemaker rate and attentional resources. An explanation regarding divided attention between non-temporal and temporal information processing best explains the findings. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990218406 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: B: SB: 48: 7T |
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