Transfer effects in task-set cost and dual-task cost after dual-task training in older and younger adults: further evidence for cognitive plasticity in attentional control in late adulthood.
Older adults' difficulties in performing two tasks concurrently have been well documented (Kramer & Madden, 2008). It has been observed that the age-related differences in dual-task performance are larger when the two tasks require similar motor responses (2001) and that in some conditions older adu...
| Publicado en: | Experimental Aging Research Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 188 - 220 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2008
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