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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 596-606Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.596
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aging; dual-task performance; bottleneck; practice
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This study investigated whether older adults could acquire the ability to perform 2 cognitive operations in parallel in a paradigm in which young adults had been shown to be able to do so (K. Oberauer & R. Kliegl, 2004). Twelve young and 12 older adults practiced a numerical and a visuospatial continuous memory updating task in single-task and dual-task conditions for 16 to 24 sessions. After practice, 9 young adults were able to process the 2 tasks without dual-task costs, but none of the older adults had reached the criterion of parallel processing. The results suggest a qualitative difference between young and older adults in how they approach dual-task situations.
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