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Southern California Research Institute |
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Age and Driving |
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Allen, R. W., Park, G., Cook, M., Rosenthal, T. J., Fiorentino, D., & Viirre, E. (2003). Novice driver training Results and experience with a PC based simulator. Proceedings of the Second International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design, 165-170.
This paper reports on work accomplished subsequent to a pilot study that was presented at the 2001 conference. This current study will eventually involve the training of over 500 novice drivers, and subsequent comparison of real-world accident and violation rates of the simulator trained group with a traditionally trained control group of demographically matched novice drivers. This paper describes the simulator training system and presents some training data for 111 student subjects collected at three sites involving different simulator configurations. These configurations include a desktop system with a single monitor narrow field of view display, a desktop system with wide field of view display and a cab with wide field of view display. The results include performance measures, a measure of simulator sickness and experience involved in implementing driver-training simulators in the high school environment.
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Moskowitz, H. A., & Burns, M. M. (1986). Cognitive performance in geriatric subjects after acute treatment with antidepressants. Neuropsychobiology, 15(Suppl.1), 38-43.
The effects of amitriptyline, trazodone and placebo on cognitive skills performance were examined in a group of 15 normal volunteers with a minimum age of 60. Each subject was behaviorally tested after single, acute treatments at weekly sessions using a battery of tasks measuring visual search, division of attention, tracking, critical tracking, rate of information processing, and vigilance. Amitriptyline, 50 mg, produced impairment on the vigilance task, the divided attention task and the critical tracking task. In addition, episodes of extended insensitivity to external stimuli similar to short-term sleep occurred. In contrast, trazodone exhibited impairment only on the critical tracking task. This study indicates that trazodone is less likely than amitriptyline to produce impairment of skills performance aspects of cognition. |
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