The drive-wise project: Driving simulator training increases real driving performance in healthy older drivers

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Casutt, Gianclaudio ^a,b   Theill, Nathan ^a   Martin, Mike ^a   Keller, Martin ^a,c   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International Normal Aging and Plasticity Research Centre Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c Rehabilitation Centre Valens   (Switzerland)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Cognitive training; Driving simulator; On road driving performance; Training effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVE WISE PROJECT; DRIVER; DRIVER LICENCE; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATOR; TRAFFIC;

EID: 84901331875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00085     Document Type: Article

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