Inhibitory motor control in old age: evidence for de-automatization?
To examine age-related effects on high-level consciously-controlled and low-level automatically-controlled inhibitory processes, the Simon task was combined with the masked prime task in a hybrid procedure. Young and older adults responded to the identity of targets (left/right key-press to left-/ri...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00132/full |