Cognitive ability, expertise and age differences in following air-traffic control instructions

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A study of pilots' accuracy of executing air-traffic controller (ATC) instructions from memory and the expected effects of age and expertise are reported. Findings disclosed that older pilots were less accurate than their younger counterparts in aviation communication performance.

Management dynamics, Practice, Physiological aspects, Air pilots, Aircraft pilots

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Adult's age related differences in adaptivity of strategy choices: evidence from computational estimation

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Four experiments adults age-related changes in computational estimates performance and in adaptivity of strategy choices. Young and older adults were asked to provide estimates of 2-by-2-digit multiplication problem under varying conditions of speed and accuracy emphasis.

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Age differences in the correction processes of context induced biases: when correction succeeds

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The condition under which older adults could or could not correct their biases was examined. Both young and older adults corrected their biases in the blatant cue condition, but only young adults corrected in the subtle cue conditions.

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