APPLYING BRINLEY PLOTS TO INDIVIDUALS - EFFECTS OF AGING ON PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTIONS IN 2 SPEEDED TASKS

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作者
MAYLOR, EA [1 ]
RABBITT, PMA [1 ]
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[1] UNIV MANCHESTER,AGE & COGNIT PERFORMANCE RES CTR,MANCHESTER M13 9PL,LANCS,ENGLAND
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10.1037/0882-7974.9.2.224
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R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];
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1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;
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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.
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