The effect of individual differences in working memory in older adults on performance with different degrees of automated technology

@article{Pak2017TheEO,
  title={The effect of individual differences in working memory in older adults on performance with different degrees of automated technology},
  author={Richard Pak and Anne Collins McLaughlin and William Leidheiser and Ericka Rovira},
  journal={Ergonomics},
  year={2017},
  volume={60},
  pages={518 - 532}
}
Abstract A leading hypothesis to explain older adults’ overdependence on automation is age-related declines in working memory. However, it has not been empirically examined. The purpose of the current experiment was to examine how working memory affected performance with different degrees of automation in older adults. In contrast to the well-supported idea that higher degrees of automation, when the automation is correct, benefits performance but higher degrees of automation, when the… 
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