Age- and practice-related influences on dual-task costs and compensation mechanisms under optimal conditions of dual-task performance
Strobach, T. and Frensch, P.A. and Muller, Hermann J. and Schubert, T. (2012) Age- and practice-related influences on dual-task costs and compensation mechanisms under optimal conditions of dual-task performance. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition 19 (1/2), pp. 222-247. ISSN 1382-5585.
Abstract
Impaired dual-task performance in younger and older adults can be improved with practice. Optimal conditions even allow for a (near) elimination of this impairment in younger adults. However, practice effects under these conditions in older adults are unknown. Further, it is open, how changed task scheduling and/ or the acquisition of task coordination skills affect the temporal overlap of two tasks in different age groups; this overlap indicate the involvement of these practice-related mechanisms to compensate for impaired dual-task performance. In a dual-task situation of Schumacher et al. (2001, Psychological Science, 12, 230) including optimal conditions for dual-task performance, both younger and older adults were able to achieve an improvement in dual-task performance with 8 practice sessions to the same degree. The temporal task overlap changed similarly in both age groups during these sessions demonstrating a similar degree of the involvement of compensation mechanisms in younger and older adults. At the end of practice, however, we showed that older adults do not achieve the same optimized dual-task performance level of younger adults.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | cognitive aging, dual-task performance, dual-task interference, practice, compensation mechanisms |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 16:19 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13230 |
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