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DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE PROCESS-RELATED SKILLS BETWEEN TAXI AND NON-TAXI DRIVERS BETWEEN 50 AND 70 YEARS OLD.
- Source :
- Perceptual & Motor Skills; Aug2014, Vol. 119 Issue 1, p100-122, 23p, 4 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00315125
- Volume :
- 119
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Perceptual & Motor Skills
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97677905
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2466/22.24.PMS.119c10z8