Response Latency in Canis familiaris: Mental Ability or Mental Strategy?
Animal studies of cognitive aging typically use measures of response accuracy (RA) to evaluate cognitive function, which declines with age. Human aging studies, by contrast, frequently measure response latency (RL), with faster responses being indicative of superior performance. To examine the influ...
| Publicado en: | Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 117; no. 5; pp. 1066 - 1076 |
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American Psychological Association
October 2003
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