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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 278-289Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.2.278
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG017083, R01-AG17083] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [K05-MH01891, R37 MH044640, K05 MH001891, R37-MH44640] Funding Source: Medline
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The effects of aging on response time (RT) are examined in 2 lexical-decision experiments with young and older subjects (age 60-75). The results show that the older subjects were slower than the young subjects, but more accurate. R. Ratcliff's (1978) diffusion model provided a good account of RTs, their distributions, and response accuracy. The fits show an 80-100-ms slowing of the nondecision components of RT for older subjects relative to young subjects and more conservative decision criterion settings for older subjects than for young subjects. The rates of accumulation of evidence were not significantly different for older compared with young subjects (less than 2% and 5% higher for older subjects relative to young subjects in the 2 experiments).
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