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Peer reviewedWest, Robin L.; And Others – Human Development, 1978
Studies the effects of perceptual salience on performance in problems requiring the coordination of information. Subjects were groups of children, younger adults, and older adults. For each of the age groups, those problems containing the most salient information were solved faster and more accurately than problems containing the least salient…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
