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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Appl. 2009 Mar;15(1):12–24. doi: 10.1037/a0014947

Figure 3.

Figure 3

(a) The vectoring task in which participants must sequence aircraft along two air corridors around an airport. The task becomes increasingly challenging as airspace load increases. (b) A significant interaction is observed between experience and age, with no difference in performance between more and less experienced controllers but a substantial difference in aircraft-handling performance between young and older noncontrollers.