Age-related preservation of top-down attentional guidance during visual search
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Research was done on younger (19-27 years of age) and older (60-82 years of age) adults to perform a letter search task in which a color singleton was either noninformative (baseline condition) or highly informative (guided condition) regarding target location. In conclusion, under conditions that equate the physical structure of individual displays, top-down attentional guidance can be at least as effective for older adults as for younger adults.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2004
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Adult age differences in the implicit and explicit components of top-down attentional guidance during visual speech
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Two experiments were conducted to investigate adult age differences in the explicit and implicit components of top-down attentional guidance during discrimination of a target singleton. The results of suggested that some forms of top-down attentional control were preserved as a function of adult age and might operate in a compensatory manner.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2005
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Overriding age differences in attentional capture with top-down processing
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The extent to which adult-age differences in the capacity to look for singleton targets using special cues is influenced by top-down information is investigated.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2007
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