{"title":"Aging Reduces Attentional Modulation of Speech-Evoked Cortical Responses While Preserving Adaptation.","authors":"Anoop Basavanahalli Jagadeesh, Ajith Kumar Uppunda","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2026.2671611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2026.2671611","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examined age-related differences in repetition-related adaptation and attentional modulation of cortical auditory evoked potentials elicited by meaningful speech stimuli.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Younger (18-35 years) and older (50-70 years) adults with clinically normal hearing were tested under active and passive listening conditions. N1 peak amplitudes were analyzed across early (first 30) and late (last 30) stimulus trials.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Repetition-related reductions in N1 amplitude were observed in both groups, indicating preserved adaptation. However, younger adults showed significant attentional enhancement of N1 amplitude, whereas older adults did not.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that aging selectively reduces top-down attentional modulation while preserving repetition-related sensory adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147856146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ageing and Type of Employment Affect Workers' Ability to Anticipate Their Employment Prospects.","authors":"Noël Bonneuil, Younga Kim","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2026.2667119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2026.2667119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To what extent do individual cognitive biases in anticipating position stability reflect and reproduce structural socioeconomic inequalities?</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>The Korean Longitudinal Survey on Aging 2006-2020 allows estimating the probability of keeping one's position six years ahead at each wave. Respondents are also asked to anticipate their probability of remaining in position five years ahead. The gap between these two underlying log-hazard rates quantifies agents' error regarding their professional future.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With age, both anticipated hazards and underestimation increase. Underestimation increases over anticipation time. Unpaid family workers are influenced by family environment and residence; self-employed workers by housing, siblings and the suitability of their education for the position held; daily wage earners by children, consumption, savings and sector of activity; temporary wage earners by variables linked to extended family; regular wage earners by personal success variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A recommendation is to provide tables for position retention by covariate built from a representative longitudinal survey, such as the one used.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147834476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dolores Fernández-Pérez, Laura Ros, Llanos Merín, Jefferson Singer, Jorge Javier Ricarte
{"title":"Associations of Self-Defining Memories Characteristics and Transdiagnostic Variables with Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults.","authors":"Dolores Fernández-Pérez, Laura Ros, Llanos Merín, Jefferson Singer, Jorge Javier Ricarte","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2026.2667117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2026.2667117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Population aging poses mental health challenges, particularly regarding depression. This study explores the relationship between transdiagnostic variables (self-esteem, intolerance of uncertainty), self-defining memory characteristics, and depressive symptoms in 225 young (<i>M</i> = 22.8) and 225 older adults (<i>M</i> = 68.4). Older adults reported higher depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and intolerance of uncertainty, as well as more specific, positive, and identity-relevant memories. Young adults' memories showed more guilt/shame and anger. In older adults, lower self-esteem, higher intolerance of anxiety, more memory detail, and external guilt/shame predicted greater depressive symptoms. These results highlight the role of memory and emotional processing in understanding depression in later life.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147812907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Part-List Cuing Impairment in Older Adults: Evidence for Two Distinct Mechanisms.","authors":"Alp Aslan, Thomas John","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2603135","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2603135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Part-list cuing impairment is the counterintuitive finding that presenting a subset of previously studied items as a retrieval cue can impair memory for the remaining items. This study examined the temporal persistence of part-list cuing impairment in younger and older adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Younger and older adults studied item lists under two encoding conditions: a single study trial versus two study-test cycles, the latter assumed to induce more associative encoding than the former. Participants then completed a critical test with part-list cues to assess the initial effect, followed by a final uncued test to assess the persistence of part-list cuing impairment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Part-list cuing impairment was lasting when items were encoded through a single study trial, but transient when items were encoded through two study-test cycles. This encoding-dependent dissociation was observed equally in younger and older adults.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The present findings provide evidence for two distinct, age-invariant mechanisms underlying part-list cuing impairment in younger and older adults: lasting retrieval inhibition in low associative encoding conditions, and transient strategy disruption in higher associative encoding conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"472-482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145773957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective and Cognitive Theory of Mind in Aging: What's the Role of Executive Functions and Cognitive Reserve on the Decline?","authors":"A Merlini, I Gabbatore, A Marini, F M Bosco","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2586970","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2586970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer others' mental states, is central to social interaction and may be sensitive to age-related differences. This study explored variations in cognitive and affective ToM across adulthood and examined the roles of executive functions (EFs), general cognition, and Cognitive Reserve (CR).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Ninety-six participants were assigned to three groups: Young Adults (20-40), Older Adults (65-75), and Senior Older Adults (76-86). Cognitive ToM was assessed with the Strange Stories and II Order Stories tasks, and affective ToM with the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. Measures of processing speed, working memory, long-term memory, EFs (updating, shifting, inhibition), and CR were included.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both cognitive and affective ToM varied by age group, with younger adults performing better than older groups. Updating and shifting predicted ToM performance, accounting for group differences in cognitive ToM and partially in affective ToM. CR, particularly occupational activity, moderated the association between age group and cognitive ToM: differences emerged at low CR but not at high CR levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings suggest that age-related differences in ToM are associated with executive functioning and that higher CR may mitigate these differences, supporting the role of cognitive engagement in social-cognitive maintenance.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"377-405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145660741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examination of Factors Related to Kinesiophobia in Individuals Living in Nursing Homes: Pain, Independence, and Life Satisfaction.","authors":"Mürüvvet Aydemir, Onur Altuntaş","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2599047","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2599047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the relationships among kinesiophobia, pain, independence in activities of daily living (ADL), and life satisfaction in 125 residents of nursing homes. Standardized scales were used to assess kinesiophobia, pain, ADL independence, and life satisfaction. Spearman correlation analysis revealed that kinesiophobia was positively correlated with pain (<i>r</i> = 0.764, <i>p</i> < .001) and negatively correlated with ADL independence (<i>r</i> = -0.772, <i>p</i> < .001) and life satisfaction (<i>r</i> = -0.681, <i>p</i> < .001). Multiple regression analysis showed that pain (β = 0.47, <i>p</i> < .001), reduced ADL independence (β = -0.38, <i>p</i> < .001), and lower life satisfaction (β = -0.19, <i>p</i> = .010) significantly predicted kinesiophobia, explaining 70% of the variance (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.700). Among pain subdimensions, pain-induced withdrawal was the strongest predictor. Mediation analysis demonstrated that kinesiophobia partially mediated the relationship between pain and life satisfaction (indirect effect B = -0.158, 95% CI: -0.307 to -0.042). These findings indicate that pain, loss of independence, and reduced psychosocial well-being jointly contribute to fear of movement in institutionalized older adults. Targeted occupational therapy interventions focusing on pain management, autonomy enhancement, and psychological support may reduce kinesiophobia and improve overall well-being in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"429-440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145687143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Associative Memory and Trustworthiness of Artificial Faces in Young and Older Adults.","authors":"Kylie O Alberts, Alan D Castel","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2597154","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2597154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Older adults generally show deficits in associative memory and increased trust in faces compared to young adults. However, little research has been conducted on older adults' associative memory and trust in artificial faces. The present study investigated young and older adults' perceived trustworthiness for real and artificial faces that were associated with either a scam or neutral condition.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants viewed the faces before and after they were associated with either a scam or a neutral condition and subsequently rated each face on perceived trustworthiness. Participants were also tested on their memory for these associations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both young and older adults rated faces associated with a scam as being less trustworthy. However, overall, older adults rated faces as more trustworthy than young adults. In addition, young adults were the only group to rate artificial faces as being less trustworthy than real faces, and older adults did not show this difference. Young and older adults also had similar accuracy for remembering the associations of real and artificial faces. However, only young adults had higher accuracy for real faces than artificial ones, while older adults showed no difference.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings illustrate that older adults may perceive and remember artificial faces differently from young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"441-455"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145696024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Gilis, Laurent Lefebvre, Isabelle Simoes Loureiro
{"title":"Effects of Semantic Interference and Facilitation on Lexical Retrieval: Evolution in Healthy Aging.","authors":"Sarah Gilis, Laurent Lefebvre, Isabelle Simoes Loureiro","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2585769","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2585769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Word retrieval difficulties, such as anomia, increase with age. While some language functions, like semantic knowledge, remain stable or improve, lexical retrieval declines, due to reduced processing speed, weaker inhibition, and increased lexical competition. The Picture-Word Interference (PWI) paradigm is commonly used to study these effects. Taxonomic relations (e.g. cow - horse) tend to increase interference, whereas thematic relations (e.g. cow - milk) may facilitate retrieval. This study investigates how semantic links influence lexical retrieval and whether these effects vary with age.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Fifty-five French-speaking adults (30 young, 25 elderly) performed a PWI task (i.e. a picture is shown with a written distractor word) with four conditions: taxonomic, thematic, unrelated, and neutral.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Elderly adults responded more slowly and less accurately overall. However, taxonomic distractors consistently caused the greatest interference eliciting the longest reaction times and lowest accuracy - in both age groups. Thematic and unrelated distractors produced moderate interference compared to the neutral condition.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Semantic relationships distinctly influence lexical retrieval, regardless of age. Age-related differences mainly manifested in speed and accuracy while the structure of semantic interference is overall consistent across ages, underscoring, respectively, cognitive slowing and reduced inhibitory control in aging. Preserved semantic knowledge in elderly adults appears to mitigate some of these difficulties, highlighting its compensatory role in language production. The findings highlight the specific role of semantic relations in lexical access and confirm that aging affects processing speed more than semantic network structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"331-351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145471040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tara T Lineweaver, Shelby Terwillegar, Nathan J Aardsma, Kylie Washel, Abi M Sipes, Michelle Horhota
{"title":"Self-Regulatory Focus Predicts Everyday Memory Strategy Use for Older, but Not Young, Adults.","authors":"Tara T Lineweaver, Shelby Terwillegar, Nathan J Aardsma, Kylie Washel, Abi M Sipes, Michelle Horhota","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2580894","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2580894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the role of memory-specific self-regulatory focus in guiding young and older adults' usage of everyday memory strategies Participants included 164 young (ages 18-23) and 204 older (ages 68-75) adults. Structural equation modeling tested our hypothesis that participants' prevention-based and promotion-based self-regulatory focus influences memory strategy use through memory beliefs (memory self-efficacy, present control, future control) and participant perceptions of the memory strategies' focus toward maximizing memory functioning versus preventing future memory decline. We modeled participants' utilization of both use-it-or-lose-it strategies (commonly used by older adults) and task-focused strategies (commonly used by young adults). Older adults endorsed stronger prevention-based and promotion-based self-regulatory focus than young adults did. We also found strong evidence that, for older adults, the significant relationship between self-regulatory focus and memory strategy use for both use-it-or-lose-it and task-focused strategies was frequently mediated by memory beliefs and less frequently mediated by the perceived focus of the strategies. In contrast, self-regulatory focus did not predict memory strategy use for young adults. Results suggest that encouraging a promotion- or prevention-focused lens based on an individual's memory self-efficacy and perceived control over their memory may foster optimal memory strategy selection in older adults' daily lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"352-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145495034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association Between Job Adaptation According to Education Level and Cognitive Decline in Middle-Aged and Older Workers.","authors":"Min-Soo Kim, Jae-Hyun Kim","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2597153","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2597153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Workplace factors across middle and later life may influence cognitive aging and later-life cognitive change. We examined associations of job - education adaptation with global cognitive function (MMSE) in middle-aged and older Korean workers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using KLoSA (2008-2020), we analyzed 3,322 participants aged ≥45 years employed. Repeated MMSE scores were modeled with generalized estimating equations adjusted for sociodemographic, health, and covariates. Job adaptation was cross-classified with education (≤middle school/high school/≥college). Sensitivity and subgroup analyses by sex and age ( < 65 vs ≥ 65) were performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Job - education mismatch predicted lower MMSE scores. Compared with Neutral - high school, High-≤middle-school (β = -1.737, 95% CI - 2.669 to -0.804), Low-≤middle-school (β = -1.392, 95% CI - 1.613 to -1.171), and Neutral-≤middle-school (β = -1.227, 95% CI - 1.371 to -1.082) had poorer cognition. Effects were larger in subgroups: females (High-≤middle-school β = -2.357, 95% CI - 3.948 to -0.766), those ≥65 (High-≤middle-school β = -2.144, 95% CI - 3.622 to -0.666), and white-collar (Neutral-≤middle-school β = -2.135, 95% CI - 2.857 to -1.413). Results were robust to sensitivity checks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Job - education mismatch is associated with worse global cognitive function, notably among women, older adults, and some occupational groups. Policies improving person - job fit and skill use may mitigate cognitive decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"406-428"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145676907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}