Citation

Desrocher M, Smith ML. Exp. Aging Res. 2005; 31(2): 205-216.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. mdesroch@yorku.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/03610730590915443

PMID

15981797

Abstract

This experiment examined performance of 20 older adults (64 to 76 years) and 20 young adults (18 to 35 years) on two orientation tasks: The Intrapersonal task required participants to point to parts of their body corresponding to those on a line drawing; and, the Extrapersonal task involved translating a route indicated on paper to walking a route on a corresponding floor map. Older adults were found to be slower at completing both tasks, although accuracy of performance was comparable between age groups. The results were interpreted in terms of a speed-accuracy tradeoff that increases with age.

Language: en