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Shin, Jacqueline C. – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The ability to learn temporal patterns in sequenced actions was investigated in elementary-school age children. Temporal learning depends upon a process of integrating timing patterns with action sequences. Children ages 6-13 and young adults performed a serial response time task in which a response and a timing sequence were presented repeatedly…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Elementary School Students, Young Adults, Task Analysis
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Salthouse, Timothy A.; Siedlecki, Karen L. – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Two tasks hypothesized to assess the efficiency of route selection were administered to 328 adults ranging from 18 to 93 years of age. Increased age was associated with slower completion of mazes, even after adjusting for differences in perceptual-motor speed, and with longer and less accurate routes in a task in which participants were asked to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Cognitive Ability, Adults, Task Analysis