Age-related performance differences in compensatory tracking under a dual task condition

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-86

  Hahn, Melanie ^a   Falkenstein, Michael ^a   Wild Wall, Nele ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging; driving; Dual task; tracking; visual attention task

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954773775     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/OER-2010-0173     Document Type: Article

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