@article{ref1,
title="Aging and performance on an everyday-based visual search task",
journal="Acta psychologica",
year="2012",
author="Potter, Lauren M. and Grealy, Madeleine A. and Elliott, Mark A. and Andrés, Pilar",
volume="140",
number="3",
pages="208-217",
abstract="Research on aging and visual search often requires older people to search computer screens for target letters or numbers. The aim of this experiment was to investigate age-related differences using an everyday-based visual search task in a large participant sample (n=261) aged 20-88years. Our results show that: (1) old-old adults have more difficulty with triple conjunction searches with one highly distinctive feature compared to young-old and younger adults; (2) age-related declines in conjunction searches emerge in middle age then progress throughout older age; (3) age-related declines are evident in feature searches on target absent trials, as older people seem to exhaustively and serially search the whole display to determine a target's absence. Together, these findings suggest that declines emerge in middle age then progress throughout older age in feature integration, guided search, perceptual grouping and/or spreading suppression processes. Discussed are implications for enhancing everyday functioning throughout adulthood.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6918",
doi="10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.05.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.05.001"
}