Cindy J. Lahar, Matthew I. Isaak & Alisa D. McArthur
 (2001)

Aging, Neuropsychology  and Cognition, 8(2), 149-159. 

  ABSTRACT:
When people attend to a target in a rapid sequence of items, their perception of a subsequent target is impaired for about 500 ms. This is termed the attentional blink. In this experiment, a dual task rapid serial presentation task (Raymond, Shapiro & Arnell, 1992) was used as a measure of inhibitory function of younger and older adults. We found that the attentional blink was larger among older adults as compared to younger adults, supporting Hasher & Zacks (1988) inhibitory deficit hypothesis and current models of the attentional blink.

Full reference:

Lahar, C.J. , Isaak, M.I. & McArthur, A.D. (2001). Age differences in magnitude of the attentional blink. Aging, Neuropsychology  and Cognition, 8(2), 149-159. 

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