[Effect of age on the orientation of attention: effect of changing the interval between signal and stimulus].
The purpose of the experiment was to examine the effect of aging on spatial attention. One of two possible locations, horizontally arranged, was cued. The subject had to respond to the onset of a visual stimulus, wherever it appeared. The task demand was to orient attention to the stimulated location before producing a response, or to reorient it if the position is not the cued one. Younger and older adults showed the same response pattern, despite the overall slowing down of response presented by the latter.
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Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma.
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Umilta
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior; D013997:Time Factors
Effetto dell'età sull'orientamento dell'attenzione: influenza delle variazioni dell'intervallo fra segnale e stimolo.