Aging and the Detection of Visual Errors in Scenes

Table 2

Percent of errors detected, overall and separately for each stimulus picture in Experiments  1 and 2 (SDs in parentheses).

	Young adults	Older adults
Experiment 1
Overall	81% (10%)	68% (15%)**
Picture 1	73% (12%)	60% (16%)**
Picture 2	87% (7%)	74% (15%)**
Picture 3	87% (14%)	73% (17%)*
Experiment 2
Overall	85% (12%)	70% (17%)**
Picture 1	98% (8%)	93% (12%)
Picture 2	98% (7%)	76% (25%)
Picture 3	73% (26%)	55% (16%)
Picture 4	96% (11%)	70% (25%)
Picture 5	50% (0%)	45% (37%)
Picture 6	67% (30%)	53% (32%)

* indicates a significant age difference, 𝑃<0.05; **indicates a significant age difference, 𝑃<0.01. Individual pictures within Experiment 2 were not tested for age differences².