Although aging is normally associated with declines in motor performance, recent evidence
suggests that older adults suffer no loss in some measures of bimanual coordination relative …

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Objective Prior attention research has asserted that endogenous orienting of spatial
attention by willful focusing may be differently influenced by aging than exogenous orienting …

Objectives. It was recently hypothesized that age-related differences in selective attention
depend on sensory modality (Guerreiro, MJS, Murphy, DR, & Van Gerven, PWM (2010). The …

Reports an error in" Predictivity and manifestation factors in aging effects on the orienting of
spatial attention" by Alon Zivony, Hadas Erel and Daniel A. Levy (The Journals of …

It has been proposed that aging selectively affects cognitive processes that are effortful
rather than automatic and that active, memory-driven attentional selectivity is impaired in old …

Alerting, the process of achieving and maintaining a state of optimal vigilance, is crucial for
detecting relevant stimuli and task performance. Age-related decline in the ability to use …

Recent research has shown that newly introduced motion in a scene captures attention in
young adults. Prior research has been mixed in terms of possible age-related differences in …

Behavioral studies in young adults have shown that working memory capacity (WMC), the
ability to maintain and manipulate items in memory, may be associated with individual …