Selective attention in younger and older adults

Three experiments are presented that investigated the effects of distracting information on the processing of stimuli for younger and older adults. The first two experiments were controlled laboratory experiments, in which the flanker paradigm was used to investigate whether older and younger adults...

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Main Author: Szymkowiak, Andrea
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2000
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9978562