Logo image
Effect of age on dual-task performance in children and adults
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Effect of age on dual-task performance in children and adults

M. Anderson, R.S. Bucks, D.M. Bayliss and S. Della Sala
Memory & Cognition, Vol.39(7), pp.1241-1252
2011
url
Link to Published Version *Subscription may be requiredView

Abstract

Dual-task cost Aging Development
Age effects on dual-task costs were examined in healthy adults (Exp. 1) and in typically developing children (Exp. 2). In both experiments, individual differences in performance on the single-task components were titrated so that any age differences in dual-task costs could not be attributed to differences in single-task performance. Dual-task costs were found, but there were no age-related differences in these costs in older relative to younger adults, in 7-year-old relative to 9-year-old children, or across all four age groups. The results from these experiments suggest that previously reported age differences in dual-task costs, in both healthy ageing and child development, may be due to a failure to adequately equate single-task difficulty.

Details

Metrics

InCites Highlights

These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output

Collaboration types
Domestic collaboration
International collaboration
Citation topics
1 Clinical & Life Sciences
1.7 Neuroscanning
1.7.1026 Intelligence
Web Of Science research areas
Psychology, Experimental
ESI research areas
Psychiatry/Psychology
Logo image