Age-Related Slowing of Behavior

Abstract

Presented is a symposium session sponsored by the Human Factors in Aging Technical Interest Group which features recent findings from research designed to quantify and explain slowing of behavior with increasing age. Highlighted are experiments and data analyses conducted in the Laboratory of Attention and Motor Behavior (University of Southern California) and the Aging and Ergonomics Laboratory (University of Hawaii), especially four master's theses: a cross-sectional laboratory experiment and three studies which analyzed data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA).