TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Age and Skill Differences in the Processing Demands of Visual Inspection
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - Dollinger, Stephanie M. C.
A1  - Hoyer, William J.
SP  - 225
EP  - 239
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
N2  - Two experiments investigated the effects of age and domain-specific experience on the speed and accuracy of visual inspection performance. In Experiment 1, young (M age = 26.5 years) and middle-aged (M age = 45.7 years) medical laboratory technologists (MTs) and matched novices were tested on a domain-specific version and on a domain-general version of a probe recognition task. Middle-aged subjects were slower than younger subjects on both versions, and MTs were more accurate but slower than controls on the domain-specific task. In Experiment 2, MTs and controls were tested on the same tasks under single-task and dual-task conditions. Middle-aged adults were slower and less accurate than young adults under dual-task conditions in the general version. For the domain-specific version, the response times and error data suggested that skilled performance is less demanding of age-limited general-purpose processing resources.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199606)10:3<225::AID-ACP376>3.0.CO;2-X
ID  - ref1
ER  -