PMID- 2029359
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19910614
LR  - 20191022
IS  - 0882-7974 (Print)
IS  - 0882-7974 (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 1
DP  - 1991 Mar
TI  - Classical eyeblink conditioning in adulthood: effects of age and interstimulus 
      interval on acquisition in the trace paradigm.
PG  - 109-17
AB  - Effects of age and interstimulus interval (ISI) were examined in eyeblink 
      classical conditioning with a trace paradigm. Sixty young adults were trained in 
      Experiment 1 with 6 interstimulus intervals (ISIs): 400, 900, 1,200, 1,500, 
      1,800, and 2,100 ms. The purpose was to find an ISI value for humans that would 
      result in nonoptimal acquisition. ISIs of 1,200 ms and longer were nonoptimal. 
      Adults aged 17-81 years were trained in Experiment 2 with a nonoptimal 1,800-ms 
      ISI in the trace paradigm. Young and middle-aged subjects demonstrated equivalent 
      levels of acquisition, and only older subjects conditioned more poorly. Aging 
      appears to affect conditioning in the long-ISI trace paradigm as well as in the 
      short-ISI delay paradigm.
FAU - Finkbiner, R G
AU  - Finkbiner RG
AD  - Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122.
FAU - Woodruff-Pak, D S
AU  - Woodruff-Pak DS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Psychol Aging
JT  - Psychology and aging
JID - 8904079
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over/psychology
MH  - Aging/*psychology
MH  - Arousal
MH  - Association Learning
MH  - Attention
MH  - *Conditioning, Classical
MH  - *Conditioning, Eyelid
MH  - Discrimination Learning
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mental Recall
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Reaction Time
MH  - Reference Values
EDAT- 1991/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1991/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1991/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1991/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1991/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1991/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1037//0882-7974.6.1.109 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychol Aging. 1991 Mar;6(1):109-17. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.6.1.109.