@article{ref1,
title="Age differences in divided attention in a simulated driving task",
journal="Journal of gerontology",
year="1988",
author="Ponds, R. W. and Brouwer, Wiebo Hendrik and Van Wolffelaar, P. C.",
volume="43",
number="6",
pages="151-156",
abstract="The ability of young, middle-aged, and old adults to divide attention was examined using a dual task experiment involving two continuous performance tasks. The first task was a compensatory tracking task modeled after the important everyday activity of car driving. The second task was a self-paced visual choice-reaction time task requiring analysis of a small visual display presented in such a way that no eye movements were required when the two tasks had to be performed simultaneously. Single-task difficulty was individually adjusted for each subject. Performance-Operating-Characteristics were used to control for individual differences in attention allocation strategies. Even when individual differences in single task performance were adequately controlled for, elderly adults showed a significantly decreased ability to divide attention when compared with young and middle-aged adults. Young and middle-aged adults did not differ in the ability to divide attention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-1422",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}