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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. doi:10.1037//0882-7974.9.2.224 ISSN 0882-7974.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.9.2.224
Abstract
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 | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > 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 | ||||
Official Date: | June 1994 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.9 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 224-30 | ||||
DOI: | 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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