Aging
Research on aging at the Florida State University is quite diverse. Most aging research at FSU falls under the domain of the Pepper Institute
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which is the main umbrella on campus for people with interests in aging research.
Aging research specific to the Cognitive area involves work by Neil Charness, Colleen Kelley, and Walter Boot.
Dr. Charness does research on age and human factors, as well as on age and expertise. The human factors and technology use project is part of a Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) a program project grant based at the University of Miami with sub-projects at FSU and at Georgia Tech. The FSU component, "Optimizing Workstations And Interactions With Technology ", has projects dealing with workstation ergonomics, stress reduction during technology use, and a health care intervention using videoconferencing. See http://www.psychology.gatech.edu/create/.
Expertise research is concerned with understanding the mechanisms by which skill (in domains such as chess playing) is developed and maintained across the lifespan.
Dr. Kelley does research on aging and memory. Recent work includes work on older adults' susceptibility to false memories due to problems with monitoring memory.
Dr. Boot studies issues of aging and visual attention/visual search. In addition to understanding age-related decline, his work also explores ways to ameliorate these declines through training, including the use of computer and video game interventions.
Faculty involved in aging research:
Walter Boot
Neil Charness
Colleen Kelley
Publications:
Fox, M. C., & Charness, N. (2010). How to gain eleven IQ points in ten minutes: Thinking aloud improves Raven’s Matrices performance in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 17, 191-204.
Charness, N. & Boot, W. R. (2009). Aging and Information Technology Use: Potential and Barriers. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 253-258.
Charness, N. (2009). Skill acquisition in older adults: Psychological mechanisms. In S. J. Czaja & J. Sharit (Eds.). Aging and work: Issues and implications in a changing landscape (pp. 232-258). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W. A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., & Sharit, J. (2009). Designing for older adults: Principles and creative human factors approaches (2nd Ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Basak, C., Boot, W.R., Voss, M., & Kramer, A.F. (2008). Can training in a real-time strategy videogame attenuate cognitive decline in older adults? Psychology and Aging.
Becic, E., Boot, W.R., & Kramer, A.F. (2008). Training older adults to search more effectively: Scanning strategy and visual search in dynamic displays. Psychology and Aging , 23, 461-466.
Rhodes, M.G. & Kelley, C.M. (2005). Executive processes, memory accuracy and memory monitoring: An aging and individual difference analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 578-594.
