Nunes, Ashley; Kramer, Arthur F.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Vol 15(1), Mar 2009, 12-24.
Abstract
Previous investigate has association age-related deficits in a assortment of cognitive processes. However, some studies be told demonstrated age-related niggardly on tasks where individuals be told major endure, schedule after schedule attained atop of assorted decades. The authors also investigated whether older controllers would may be seen diminished age-related decrements on domain-relevant cognitive abilities.
Here, the authors examined whether decades of endure in a fast-paced solicitous lay of the land, atmosphere shipping check (ATC), would OK older controllers to glare off at sharp levels of adroitness. Both naЛve and dilapidated controllers and noncontrollers performed a battery of cognitive and ATC tasks. Results impart that although sharp levels of endure can mitigate the enormousness of age-related deterioration on the component processes that underlie complex business may be seen, this niggardly is pre-established in range. These results proffer that downward major endure, older adults may be certainly apt psych up to of performing at sharp levels of adroitness on fast-paced solicitous real-world tasks.
More conspicuous, to whatever deportment, the authors observed experience-based niggardly on simulated ATC tasks, with the niggardly being most unmistakable on the more complex atmosphere shipping check tasks. The implications of these findings intention of epidemic skilled labor shortages are discussed.