Assessing dual-task performance using a paper-and-pencil test: normative data.
Although several studies have described dual-tasking ability in normal aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease, no normative data for dual-task performance exist. Dual-tasking ability of 436 healthy individuals, aged 16-88 years, was assessed using a new paper-and-pencil dual-task paradigm. In this study, no age effect was detected, providing strong evidence that age does not affect dual-tasking abilities. Psychometric data for this new assessment are presented, which may enable clinicians and researchers to use this paradigm as a means of examining attentional control in dual-tasking.
Della Sala
Sergio
S
Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. sergio@ed.ac.uk
Foley
Jennifer A
JA
Beschin
Nicoletta
N
Allerhand
Mike
M
Logie
Robert H
RH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult