Workload Capacity Across the Visual Field in Young and Older Adults (ICPSR 36054)
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Yusuke Yamani, Old Dominion University;
Jason S. McCarley, Flinders University;
Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36054.v1
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Older adults often perform more poorly than young adults on measures of the functional field of view (FFOV), the area of the visual field from which task-relevant information can be extracted without head or eye movements. To test whether differences in parallel processing efficiency explain age-related changes in the FFOV, the current work measured the workload capacity coefficient, C(t)OR (Townsend and Nozawa, 1995), for targets appearing at various retinal eccentricities in young and older adults. Derived from analysis of response time distributions, C(t)OR gauges the efficiency with which observers process multiple items simultaneously relative to the rate at which they process items individually. Subjects performed a speeded target identification task, with targets appearing at varying retinal eccentricities and in the presence or absence of visual clutter. Contrary to expectations, both age groups showed higher levels of workload capacity in cluttered displays and at larger values of target eccentricity. Additionally, despite pronounced differences between age groups in RTs and error rates, older adults showed C(t)OR values similar to or higher than those of young adults across the visual field. Results suggest that age-related changes in the profile of the FFOV do not reflect inefficient parallel processing, but are more likely the result of visual crowding or generalized cognitive slowing in older adults.
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Young and older adults with normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity and normal color perception.
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2015-02-24
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- Yamani, Yusuke, Jason S. McCarley, and Arthur F. Kramer. Workload Capacity Across the Visual Field in Young and Older Adults. ICPSR36054-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-02-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36054.v1
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Archives of Scientific Psychology
This dataset is made available in connection to an article in Archives of Scientific Psychology, the first open-access, open-methods journal of the American Psychological Association (APA). Archiving and dissemination of this research is part of APA's commitment to collaborative data sharing.