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Phillips, Louise H.; Allen, Roy; Bull, Rebecca; Hering, Alexandra; Kliegel, Matthias; Channon, Shelley – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Younger and older adults differ in performance on a range of social-cognitive skills, with older adults having difficulties in decoding nonverbal cues to emotion and intentions. Such skills are likely to be important when deciding whether someone is being sarcastic. In the current study we investigated in a life span sample whether there are…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Age Differences, Young Adults, Adults
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Maylor, Elizabeth A.; Watson, Derrick G.; Hartley, Emma L. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Speeded enumeration of visual stimuli typically produces a bilinear function, with a shallow subitizing rate (less than 100 ms/item) up to 3-4 items (subitizing span) and a steeper counting rate ([image omitted]300 ms/item) thereafter. FINST theory (L. M. Trick & Z. W. Pylyshyn, 1993, 1994) suggests that subitizing of targets is possible in…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Older Adults, Children, Adults