Research Article

Selective Age Effects on Visual Attention and Motor Attention during a Cued Saccade Task

Table 1

Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) for younger and older participants in the easy and hard cued saccade task conditions.

Dependent measureYoungerOlder
EasyHardEasyHard

Visual attention error rate
(%)
10.22 (3.36)7.52 (3.61)40.42 (3.52)39.56 (3.27)
Target selection error rate
(%)
0 (0)30.72 (20.22)1.84 (2.36)44.69 (15.62)
Reaction time (ms)568.50 (78.42)735.79 (132.91)773.79 (142.03)902.33 (191.17)
Saccade endpoint accuracy
(°)
2.58 (1.08)2.86 (1.07)2.81 (0.934)3.41 (0.882)
Saccade endpoint variability
(°)
1.69 (1.00)1.79 (0.799)1.60 (0.586)1.78 (0.715)