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...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 1236 - 1247
Main Author:	Lemaire, Patrick
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2021
Subjects:	Age distribution Task performance Cognition Aging Adults Old age Mathematics Descriptive statistics
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