Cognitive functioning differentially predicts different dimensions of older drivers' on-road safety

N Aksan, SW Anderson, J Dawson, E Uc… - Accident Analysis & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The extent to which deficits in specific cognitive domains contribute to older drivers' safety
risk in complex real-world driving tasks is not well understood. We selected 148 drivers older …

Visual impairment and incident mobility limitations: the health, aging and body composition study

BK Swenor, EM Simonsick, L Ferrucci… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To examine the association between multiple measures of visual impairment (VI)
and incident mobility limitations in older adults. Design Prospective observational cohort …

[HTML][HTML] A population study of binocular function

JM Bosten, PT Goodbourn, AJ Lawrance-Owen… - Vision Research, 2015 - Elsevier
As part of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of perceptual traits in healthy adults, we
measured stereo acuity, the duration of alternative percepts in binocular rivalry and the …

[HTML][HTML] The driving visual field and a history of motor vehicle collision involvement in older drivers: a population-based examination

C Huisingh, G McGwin, J Wood… - … ophthalmology & visual …, 2015 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: We designed a visual field test focused on the field utilized while driving to
examine associations between field impairment and motor vehicle collision involvement in …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a new test for contrast sensitivity function measurement with iPad

M Rodríguez-Vallejo, L Remón, JA Monsoriu… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose To introduce a new application (ClinicCSF) to measure Contrast Sensitivity
Function (CSF) with tablet devices, and to compare it against the Functional Acuity Contrast …

Dropout during a driving simulator study: A survival analysis

NA Matas, T Nettelbeck, NR Burns - Journal of safety research, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction Simulator sickness is the occurrence of motion-sickness like symptoms that can
occur during use of simulators and virtual reality technologies. This study investigated …

Caring more and knowing more reduces age-related differences in emotion perception.

JT Stanley, DM Isaacowitz - Psychology and Aging, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Traditional emotion perception tasks show that older adults are less accurate than are young
adults at recognizing facial expressions of emotion. Recently, we proposed that …

Abnormal visual contrast acuity in Parkinson's disease

TP Lin, H Rigby, JS Adler, JG Hentz… - Journal of …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Background: Low-contrast vision is thought to be reduced in Parkinson's disease (PD). This
may have a direct impact on quality of life such as driving, using tools, finding objects, and …

Evaluating contrast sensitivity in age-related macular degeneration using a novel computer-based test, the spaeth/richman contrast sensitivity test

BM Faria, F Duman, CX Zheng, M Waisbourd, L Gupta… - Retina, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Contrast sensitivity (CS) is a valuable measure of visual function in patients
with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The authors aimed to compare a novel …

Improving vision among older adults: behavioral training to improve sight

DJ DeLoss, T Watanabe… - Psychological …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A major problem for the rapidly growing population of older adults (age 65 and over) is age-
related declines in vision, which have been associated with increased risk of falls and …