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Allen R. Dobbs
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 22
Citations - 1641
Allen R. Dobbs is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1587 citations.
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Adult age differences in working memory.
Allen R. Dobbs,Brendan Gail Rule +1 more
TL;DR: Active and passive measures of short-term memory over a large segment of the adult life span were compared and it is suggested that the age differences may be due to a decrease in the flexibility with which processing changes are made.
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Prospective memory and self-reports of memory abilities in older adults.
Allen R. Dobbs,Brendan Gail Rule +1 more
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Evaluating the Driving Competence of Dementia Patients
TL;DR: The study has drive tested over 100 currently driving elderly patients with clinically significant cognitive decline and compared their performance with that of normal drivers and identified the types of driving errors typical of both cognitively impaired and normal experienced drivers but differing in the number and severity of errors.
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A comparative approach to identify unsafe older drivers
TL;DR: The results indicate that the conventional criteria used in North America for licensing new drivers is inappropriate for license removal in experienced drivers and that hazardous errors were the single best indicator of membership in the group of older drivers with clinical impairment.