@inproceedings{931de112617e4e44a0103041158620fd,
title = "Age effects on inattentional blindness: Implications for driving",
abstract = "We may fail to notice things in our environment because our attention is directed somewhere else, a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. Our susceptibility to inattentional blindness increases as we age. We explored three potential moderators of the age and inattentional blindness relationship: (1) the spatial proximity of the unexpected object to our focus of attention; (2) the match between the features of the unexpected object and those we have prioritized—our attention set; and (3) the salience of the unexpected object. Using a large sample of participants, we found no evidence that any of these moderate the effect that age has on inattentional blindness; the effect of age is robust. We discuss the implications for older drivers.",
keywords = "Aging, Attention, Attention set, Attentional breadth, Inattentional blindness, Salience",
author = "Cary Stothart and Walter Boot and Daniel Simons and Neil Charness and Timothy Wright",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 2nd International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2016 and held as a part of 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2016 ; Conference date: 17-07-2016 Through 22-07-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-39949-2_42",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319399485",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "441--448",
editor = "Jia Zhou and Gavriel Salvendy",
booktitle = "Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population",
address = "Germany",
}