This short article nicely talks about a well known pattern of age-related cognition (that with age comes “wisdom” or knowledge). The challenge in Human Factors is using this information in design.
“These findings are all very consistent with the context we’re building for what wisdom is,” she said. “If older people are taking in more information from a situation, and they’re then able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge, they’re going to have a nice advantage.”
