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| Age differences in dual-task interference are localized to response-generation processes | | Author(s) | Alan A Hartley |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 47-54 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Manual ability ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | The possibility of an age-related reduction in the ability to perform two tasks at the same time was explored with younger and older adults performing two simple tasks, with the onset of the second task relative to the first being carefully controlled. The age-related interference was greater than would be expected from a general slowing of processing in older people. The possibility of an age-related reduction in the capacity to process two tasks in the same perceptual input modality was explored, by presenting both tasks in the visual modality, or the first task using hearing and the second using sight, but was not supported by the evidence. There was greater interference when both tasks were in the same modality, but it was equivalent for older and younger adults. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111204 A |
| Classmark | DA: DF: BI:5G8: 3KB |
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