Visual Word Recognition Without Central Attention: Evidence for Greater Automaticity With Advancing Age.
The present experiments examined the automaticity of word recognition. The authors examined whether people can recognize words while central attention is devoted to another task and how this ability changes across the life span. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision Task 2 was combined with either an...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Aging Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 431 - 448 |
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American Psychological Association
September 2006
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