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...

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Published in:	Psychology & Aging Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 431 - 448
Main Authors:	Lien, Mei-Ching, Ruthruff, Eric, McCann, Robert S.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association September 2006
Subjects:	Cognitive interference Word recognition Automaticity (Learning process) Age (Psychology)
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