Effect of old age on dual task performance during driving simulations of varying complexities

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2006, Pages 31-44

  Cyr, A ^a   Yamin, S ^a   Belanger A ^a   Hing, M ^b   Marshall, S ^b   Gagnon, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Driver behaviour; Driving simulation; Dual task performance; Older driver

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; DETECTION ACCURACY; DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; DRIVING SIMULATION; DRIVING SIMULATOR; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE; OLDER DRIVERS; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT;

NASA; ROADS AND STREETS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 67651203529     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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