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

Anderson, M., Bucks, R.S., Bayliss, D.M. and Della Sala, S. (2011) Effect of age on dual-task performance in children and adults. Memory & Cognition, 39 . pp. 1241-1252.

Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publisher:	Springer
Copyright:	The Psychonomic Society
Publisher's Website:	http://www.psychonomic.org/
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/17085

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