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Warrington, Kayleigh L.; McGowan, Victoria A.; Paterson, Kevin B.; White, Sarah J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Reductions in stimulus quality may disrupt the reading performance of older adults more when compared with young adults because of sensory declines that begin early in middle age. However, few studies have investigated adult age differences in the effects of stimulus quality on reading, and none have examined how this affects lexical processing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Word Frequency, Eye Movements
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Libertus, Klaus; Needham, Amy – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Infants' preference for faces was investigated in a cross-sectional sample of 75 children, aged 3 to 11 months, and 23 adults. A visual preference paradigm was used where pairs of faces and toys were presented side-by-side while eye gaze was recorded. In addition, motor activity was assessed via parent report and the relation between motor…
Descriptors: Infants, Preferences, Human Body, Eye Movements
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Stuart, Geoffrey W.; Lambeth, Sandra E.; Day, Ross H.; Gould, Ian C.; Castles, Anne E. – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Visual attention has temporal limitations. In the attentional blink (AB) a stream of stimuli such as letters or digits are presented to a participant on a computer monitor at a rapid rate. Embedded in the stream are two targets that the participant must try to identify. Identification of the second target is severely impaired if it is presented…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Visual Impairments, Attention, Earth Science