Sequential and coordinative complexity : age-based processing limitations in figural transformation
- Dimensions of cognitive complexity in figural transformations were examined in the context of adult age differences. Sequential complexity was manipulated through figural transformations of single objects in a multiple- object array. Coordinative complexity was induced through spatial or nonspatial transformations of the entire array. Results confirmed the prediction that age-related slowing is larger in coordinative complexity than in sequential complexity conditions. The effect was stable across 8 sessions (Exp 1), was obtained when age groups were equated in accuracy with criterion-referenced testing (Exp 2), and was corroborated by age-differential probabilities of error types (Exps 1 and 2). A model is proposed attributing age effects under coordinative complexity to 2 factors: (1) basic- level slowing and (2) time-consuming reiterations through the processing sequence due to age-related working memory failures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
| Author details: | Ulrich Mayr, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND |
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| ISSN: | 0278-7393 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 1993 |
| Publication year: | 1993 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Journal of experimental psychology / learning, memory, and cognition. - ISSN 0278-7393. - 19 (1993), 6, S. 1297 1320 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
