Geez, I am at home but I know there is a very large literature on
generalized slowing with age and that RT specifically is a part of that.
I believe that there is also some good evidence that in the case of RT it
is movement time that is particularly affected.
a quick psychinfo search of generalized slowing should find you
something
Annette
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, marte fallshore wrote:
> One of my students asked about the mechanism that causes reaction times to
> slow as we get older. Does anyone out there know why that is? A couple of
> ideas some of my colleagues had were (1) breakdown of myelin sheaths (a
> sort of low grade MS) and (2) increased thresholds. Ideas or knowledge?
>
> Marte Fallshore
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