Abstract
There has always been considerable controversy in gerontology over the extent to which age-related decline on laboratory tasks generalizes to real world performance. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in assessing performance in more realistic tasks. In this panel we will be concerned with how the aging process affects performance in domains where people have had a great deal of practice with the tasks, through life-long experience or via extended practice in the laboratory. Performance in experience-related domains versus unrelated ones will also be discussed.
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