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Direct linkMyerson, Joel; Robertson, Shannon; Hale, Sandra – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
It has been suggested that older adults are more variable in their performance because they are more prone to lapses of either attention or intention. In the present experiment, 9 young and 9 older adults each performed nearly 2,000 trials of a same-different judgment task. As expected, older adults were slower and more variable than young adults.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Intention, Young Adults
