Gotardi, Gisele C. [UNESP]Barbieri, Fabio A. [UNESP]Simão, Rafael O. [UNESP]Pereira, Vinicius A. [UNESP]Baptista, André M. [UNESP]Imaizumi, Luiz F. [UNESP]Moretto, Gabriel [UNESP]Navarro, MartinaPolastri, Paula F. [UNESP]Rodrigues, Sérgio T. [UNESP]2022-05-012022-05-012022-01-01Ergonomics.1366-58470014-0139http://hdl.handle.net/11449/234158The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of PD and ageing on gaze behaviour and performance of drivers in a simulated task. Ten drivers with PD, ten neurologically healthy older drivers, and ten neurologically healthy younger adult drivers were asked to drive in a car simulator for three minutes, maintaining car speed between 100 and 120 km/h and avoiding collisions. Driver’s eye movements were recorded. Drivers with PD had more collisions and spent less time driving within the speed zone than the younger-drivers. Drivers with PD performed an increased number of fixations towards task-irrelevant areas of the visual scene and higher visual entropy, indicating a more random gaze behaviour. Older drivers restricted their visual search to the lane area in order to detect threat-related stimuli. PD led to drops in performance of drivers in the car simulator. Practitioner summary: Parkinson’s disease (PD) and ageing process caused a drop in driving performance. Drivers with PD made fewer fixations on task-relevant information and showed higher visual entropy than young adults. Older drivers restricted their visual search to the lane than other areas of interest.engageingdriving simulatoreye movementsParkinson’s diseasevisual entropyArtigo10.1080/00140139.2022.20289012-s2.0-85124884546