Different deployments of attentional breadth selectively predict UFOV task performance in older adults.

ABSTRACT: The Useful Field of View task (UFOV) is a strong and reliable predictor of crash risk in older drivers. However, while the functional domain of attention is clearly implicated in UFOV performance, the potential role of one specific attentional process remains unclear: attentional breadth (the spatial extent of the attended region around the point of visual fixation). The goal of the present study was to systematically test the role of two distinct aspects of attentional breadth, maintaining a specific breadth of attention and resizing the attended region, in UFOV performance. To this end, 135 older adults completed the UFOV and modified Navon tasks to measure their efficiency in maintaining, contracting, and expanding the breadth of attention. We then examined individual-difference associa

SUBMITTER: Wyche NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208374 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature