Differential age effects for case and hue mixing in visual word recognition.
Journal Article
The authors compare older adults' lexical-decision data with younger adults' data reported in P. Allen, A. F. Smith, et al. (2002). On the basis of their work, it was proposed that consistent-case wordswould be processed by the faster holistic (magnodominated) stream, but that mixed-case words would be processed by the slower analytic (interblob-dominated or blob-dominated) steams. Hue mixing was predicted to have no effect on consistent-case performance, but mixed-hue/mixed-case words were predicted to be recognized faster than monochrome/mixed-case words. Younger adults showed the predicted results, but older adults did not. These results suggest that holistic central processes are maintained, but that older adults exhibited an analytic decrement
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Allen, PA; Smith, AF; Groth, KE; Pickle, JL; Grabbe, JW; Madden, DJ
Published Date
- December 2002
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 17 / 4
Start / End Page
- 622 - 635
PubMed ID
- 12507359
Pubmed Central ID
- 12507359
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0882-7974
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States