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| Object-based attentional selection and aging | | Author(s) | Arthur F Kramer, Timothy A Weber |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 1, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 99-107 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors conducted two studies to examine potential age-related differences in object-based attentional selection. Participants were briefly presented with pairs of wrenches and were asked to make one response if both target properties (i.e. an on end and a hexagonal end) were present, and another response if only a single target property were present in the display. The critical manipulation was whether the target properties were present on one wrench or distributed between two wrenches. Space-based models of selective attention predict no difference in performance between these conditions. However, object-based attentional selection models predict better performance when both target properties appear on a single object. Results from both studies were consistent with object-based models of attentional selection. Furthermore, both young and older adults showed similar performance effects, suggesting the object-based attentional selection is insensitive to normal ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825206 A |
| Classmark | DA: DG: BB: 7T |
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