TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dirk, Judith
A1  - Kratzsch, Gesa Katharina
A1  - Prindle, John J.
A1  - Kröhne, Ulf
A1  - Goldhammer, Frank
A1  - Schmiedek, Florian
T1  - Paper-based assessment of the effects of aging on response time : a diffusion model analysis
T2  - Journal of Intelligence
N2  - The effects of aging on response time were examined in a paper-based lexical-decision experiment with younger (age 18–36) and older (age 64–75) adults, applying Ratcliff’s diffusion model. Using digital pens allowed the paper-based assessment of response times for single items. Age differences previously reported by Ratcliff and colleagues in computer-based experiments were partly replicated: older adults responded more conservatively than younger adults and showed a slowing of their nondecision components of RT by 53 ms. The rates of evidence accumulation (drift rate) showed no age-related differences. Participants with a higher score in a vocabulary test also had higher drift rates. The experiment demonstrates the possibility to use formal processing models with paper-based tests.
KW  - processing speed
KW  - paper-based assessment
KW  - aging
KW  - diffusion model
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44240
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442407
SN  - 2079-3200
N1  - © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -