Contribution of cognitive abilities to performance and improvement on a substitution coding task
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There is a correlation between culture fair, age, memory, vocabulary and cross-out speed and individual differences in initial performance on a letter-letter coding task, according to research seeking to identify how and why different cognitive abilities are interconnected in performance of a specific task. It was also established that memory also predicts systematic individual differences in rate of improvement over four 2-min trials. This research supports studies indicating that coding-type tasks are not necessarily pure measures of cognitive speed, separate from other cognitive abilities, but are potentially factorially detailed measures that also include elements of these other abilities.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1999
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Age differences in saccadic averaging
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Older adults show greater saccadic averaging than younger adults when a nontarget is situated between fixation and the saccade target, according to research comparing the saccadic onset latency and accuracy of younger and older observers. The participants made a saccade to a peripheral, oriented-line target presented against a uniform, unstructured background. The greater saccadic averaging identified among older adults could impair their ability to efficiently carry out voluntary saccades.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1999
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