In a comparison of CEFT scores of large samples of institutionalized and club-going aged men (ns = 80, 78) and women (ns = 196, 116), institutionalization and age were associated with low CEFT scores, raising the possibility of some developmental process in which perceptual field independence decreases or regresses.
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