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Applying Brinley plots to individuals: effects of aging on performance distributions in two speeded tasks.

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Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Rabbitt, Patrick. (1994) Applying Brinley plots to individuals: effects of aging on performance distributions in two speeded tasks. Psychology and Aging, Vol.9 (No.2). pp. 224-30. ISSN 0882-7974

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This article describes the application of Brinley plots to performance distributions from 2 speeded tasks, namely, letter coding and visual search. Ss were aged either 60 years (n = 111) or 75 years (n = 111). Response times within each age group were ranked and then plotted against each other so that the best 60-year-old was paired with the best 75-year-old, and so on. For both tasks, linear fits to the functions were almost perfect, with slopes greater than 1 and with negative intercepts. Additive and multiplicative models of aging were rejected in favor of a general linear model, with different parameters for the letter coding and visual search tasks.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Ability, Influence of age on, Age and intelligence, Cognition -- Testing, Human information processing -- Age factors
Journal or Publication Title: Psychology and Aging
Publisher: American Psychological Association
ISSN: 0882-7974
Date: June 1994
Volume: Vol.9
Number: No.2
Page Range: pp. 224-30
Identification Number: 10.1037/0882-7974.9.2.224
Status: Peer Reviewed
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC)
Grant number: PG8612638 (MRC), (ESRC)
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