TY - JOUR
AU - Stokes, Alan
AB - Sixty subjects, spanning the age range from 20 to 65, performed a series of tasks designed to evaluate the effects of aging on the speed and capacity of the human information-processing system. A tracking task was performed alone and concurrently with different versions of a Sternberg memory search task that varied the degree of resource competition with the tracking task. A dichotic-listening task, a tracking-task measure of perceptual-motor speed, and a complex transcription task were also performed. The data revealed a monotonic decrease in processing speed with age but no difference in time-sharing abilities between age groups. The latter conclusion was supported by a factor analysis of the test scores, which revealed that scores on the factor defining time-sharing did not differ with age.
TI - Age Differences in the Speed and Capacity of Information Processing: 1. A Dual-Task Approach
JF - Psychology and Aging
DO - 10.1037/0882-7974.2.1.70
DA - 1987-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/age-differences-in-the-speed-and-capacity-of-information-processing-1-tCKNGK4hkr
SP - 70
EP - 78
VL - 2
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -