Effects of prior-task failure on arithmetic performance: A study in young and older adults.
Effects of prior-task failure (i.e., decreased performance on a target task following failure on a prior task) were tested in young and older adults. Young and older participants (N=120) accomplished a computational estimation task (i.e., providing the best estimates to arithmetic problems) before a...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 1236 - 1247 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2021
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