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| Title |
Enhanced Impulsive Action Selection in Middle-Aged Adults—Insights From an Oculomotor Simon Task
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, October 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00251 |
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| Authors |
Joan Duprez, Jean-François Houvenaghel, Soizic Argaud, Florian Naudet, Thibaut Dondaine, Manon Auffret, Gabriel Robert, Dominique Drapier, Marc Vérin, Paul Sauleau |
| Abstract |
Several studies have investigated the age-related impact in cognitive action control. However, to our knowledge, none of the studies have focused on the effect of moderate age on the strength of automatic activation according to the activation-suppression model. We therefore investigated the effect of moderate age on cognitive action control using an oculomotor version of the Simon task and distributional analyses. A group of middle-aged (n = 39; 57 ± 9 years) healthy adults were compared to a group of young healthy participants (n = 43; 24 ± 3 years). We first analyzed the overall impact of age on the congruence effect and then used conditional accuracy functions (CAFs) and delta plots to assess the strength of automatic activation and selective inhibition, respectively. Compared to young participants, middle-aged participants showed a greater congruence effect as well as higher rates of fast errors in conflict situations indicating an enhanced impulsive action selection. Furthermore, the overall downward slope of the congruence effect's evolution was significantly steeper in older participants and the last slope tended to be significantly steeper. This may indicate that the middle-aged participants exerted a stronger selective inhibition. Our results suggest that middle-aged adults are more prone to impulsive action selection than young adults. Recent theories postulate that older adults might implement compensatory mechanisms to supply cognitive difficulties. This is in line with our results suggesting a potential greater selective inhibition. Overall, this study proposes that moderate aging impacts both processes of impulsive response selection and suppression underlying cognitive action control. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 29 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 7 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 8 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 10 | 34% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 October 2018.
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