1. Differences in cognitive process-related skills between taxi and non-taxi drivers between 50 and 70 years old.
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Chuang KH, Jeng MC, Hsu CC, Doong JL, Lin CY, and Lai CH
- Subjects
- Age Factors, Aged, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Attention physiology, Automobile Driving psychology, Mental Recall physiology, Psychomotor Performance physiology, Space Perception physiology, Vision, Ocular physiology
- Abstract
This study investigated differences between 50- to 70-yr.-old taxi and non-taxi drivers with respect to cognitive process-related skills. Psychological indicators associated with perceptuomotor, attentional, and spatial memory recall abilities were collected for 173 taxi drivers (7 women, 166 men; M age = 57.5 yr.) and 175 non-taxi drivers (85 women, 90 men; M age = 58.2 yr.). The taxi drivers had shorter reaction times and motor times in response to stimuli in simple stimulus-response tasks. There was an age-related decline in monocular vision detection on both sides, processing speed for fovea stimuli, and higher-level cognition for drivers. Accordingly, the frontal visual information processing speed of the taxi drivers was superior to the non-taxi drivers, but a distinct age-related decline was observed for all drivers.
- Published
- 2014
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