Browsing Retrospective theses by Subject "Visual perception (Testing)"
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Adult age differences in a visual search, luminance contrast discrimination task
(2003)This thesis examined the ability of younger and older adults to use peripherally presented word cues in a luminance contrast discrimination task. Observers were ten older adults (aged 55 to 69) and ten younger adults ... -
Role of inhibition of return in the safe driving of elderly persons
(2004)Elderly individuals represent a growing portion of our population and a growing number of elderly individuals are driving. A concern arises over the fact that elderly drivers are involved in more crashes than any other ... -
Walk, stop, search : the effect of simulated motion on visual attention
(2006)Responses in covert orienting of visual attention tasks (COVAT) produce a biphasic pattern of results. When the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is less than 300 ms, reaction times (RTs) to cued targets are faster than ...