Effects of aging on voluntary and involuntary shifts of attention
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
- Vol. 4 (4) , 290-303
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13825589708256654
Abstract
This experiment examined adult age differences in the speed and accuracy of voluntary and involuntary shifts of visual attention. Younger and older adults performed two spatial cuing tasks using central cues and abrupt onset peripheral cues presented at stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 100, 150, 200, 250, and 300 ms. Analyses of the magnitudes of cuing effects revealed a similar time course for younger and older adults in the central cue condition, but not in the peripheral condition. Analyses of the Brinley plot for central cues across cue validity conditions indicated that as much as 93% of the variance could be attributed to age-related general slowing rather than to differential aging of a specific visual orienting mechanism.Keywords
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