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{"title":"Language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: A behavioral screening tool for surgical planning.","authors":"Bautista Elizalde Acevedo, Valentina Agüero Vera, Silvia Oddo, Delfina De Anchorena, Christine Mohr, Silvia Kochen, Markus Hausmann, Lucía Alba-Ferrara","doi":"10.1037/neu0000962","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000962","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Temporal lobe epilepsy can disturb eloquent areas, affecting language. We applied a visually-mediated task to measure lateralization of language recognition in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Patients with left (<i>n</i> = 26), right (<i>n</i> = 28) temporal lobe epilepsy and controls (<i>n</i> = 30) were administered the translingual lexical decision task. We performed repeated measures analyses of variance, with the visual half-field as an intrasubject factor and the group as an intersubject factor.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A main effect of visual half-field was found, showing the right visual field (left hemisphere) advantage for both accuracy and response time. A main effect of the group was found in accuracy, showing that both epilepsy groups performed less accurately than controls, and left temporal lobe epilepsy performed less accurately than right temporal lobe epilepsy. Also, the group-by-visual half-field interaction was significant. Post hoc t tests indicated the controls and right temporal lobe epilepsy performed better in the right visual field than in the left visual field, whereas no visual half-field effect was found in left temporal lobe epilepsy. For response times, the interaction was also significant. Post hoc t tests showed a significant right visual-field advantage for controls (two-tailed) and for the right temporal lobe epilepsy (one-tailed). Right visual-field advantage was absent in left temporal lobe epilepsy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The translingual lexical decision task can efficiently distinguish between left and right temporal lobe epilepsy. Compared to right temporal lobe epilepsy and controls, language lateralization is diminished in left temporal lobe epilepsy. The potential use of the translingual lexical decision task as an effective noninvasive presurgical language lateralization screening tool is highlighted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"599-608"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141180246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Algorithm-defined memory impairment in older American Indians: The Strong Heart Study.","authors":"Astrid M Suchy-Dicey, Thomas Grabowski, Dedra Buchwald, W T Longstreth, Kristoffer Rhoads","doi":"10.1037/neu0000963","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000963","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Assessment of cognition in American Indians poses challenges, including barriers to healthcare, unvalidated clinical standards, and confounding social determinants of health. Alternative strategies for case identification include algorithmic methods, which can outperform clinical judgment in some circumstances.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Algorithmic methods can be maximized using single-domain tests with multiple-serial trial tasks, such as the California Verbal Learning Test II-Short Form (CVLT-SF). We collected CVLT-SF and detailed clinical data, including dementia gold standard by consensus adjudication, in 818 American Indians aged 65-95 in 2010-2013 and repeated in 403 returning participants in 2017-2019 (mean follow-up 6.7 years, range: 4-9). Our algorithm categorized CVLT-SF scores into four memory deficit categories: none, encoding, storage, and retrieval.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At Visit 1, 75.4% had no memory deficit, 15.6% encoding deficit, 3.5% storage deficit, and 5.5% retrieval deficit. At Visit 2, comparable percentages were 68.7%, 10.6%, 6.5%, and 14.2% (respectively). The majority with any deficit at Visit 1-especially encoding-were lost to follow-up by Visit 2. Most with deficits at Visit 2 were newly categorized from those previously intact. The performance of our memory algorithm, compared with adjudication for dementia, was moderately good: correct classification 69%, sensitivity 51%, and specificity 91%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These descriptive findings encompass a novel contribution in defining memory impairment among American Indians from a single cognitive test. However, more work is needed to improve the sensitivity of this algorithm and maximize its utility for case identification over conventional methods. Altogether, these data provide an important step toward better cognitive characterization and dementia care for an understudied, underserved population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"557-569"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11927065/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141559364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intrasubject variability of sustained attention is associated with elevated self-reported attention deficits in women with a fragile X premutation allele.","authors":"Shira Russell-Giller, Emily G Allen, Jessica Ezzell Hunter, Lisa Shubeck, Veronica J Hinton","doi":"10.1037/neu0000953","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000953","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Women with a fragile X premutation (PM) self-report higher rates of attention difficulties than women without a PM; however, results of studies using objective measures of attention are inconsistent. The present study assessed whether intrasubject variability during a sustained attention task better predicted functional outcomes in women with a PM than the previously published standard reaction time and accuracy variables.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We analyzed continuous performance test, a computerized measure of sustained attention, and the Conners' Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale Report (CAARS) data from 273 women with a PM and 175 women without a PM aged 18-50 years. Separate analyses using Pearson correlations and independent t tests were performed on the full range of coefficient of variation (CV) of reaction time scores and the subset of scores that showed higher variability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Performance variability of sustained attention measured by the continuous performance test was associated with functional outcomes measured by the CAARS in women with a PM but not women without a PM. Specifically, the CV in those with higher variability was correlated with two CAARS subscale scores (<i>p</i> = .006). Independent t tests showed significant differences in CV between CAARS scores dichotomized for the presence of subclinical symptoms for two subscales (<i>p</i> ≤ .001-.007). Correlation between the full range of CV scores and the CAARS Inattention/Memory Problems subscale approached significance (<i>p</i> = .012).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings highlight the importance of including intrasubject variability in analyzing attention in clinical populations as a more sensitive objective measure associated with reported symptoms and to assist in predicting functional outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"531-539"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141427306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disparate trajectories of cognitive aging among American Indian and Alaskan Native people with and without HIV.","authors":"Micah J Savin, Desiree Byrd, Lucette Cysique, Sean Rourke, Steven P Verney, Kylie Radford, Tedd Judd, Maral Aghvinian, Cara Crook, Denise Oleas, Alex Slaughter, Richard Armenta, Donald Franklin, Thomas Marcotte, Heining Cham, Monica Rivera Mindt","doi":"10.1037/neu0000950","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study describes trajectories of cognitive aging among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) adults with and without HIV and the role of immunosenescence longitudinally.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We characterized trajectories of cognitive aging in a sample of 333 AI/AN and 309 non-Hispanic White (NHW) adults who were followed longitudinally for up to 20 years by the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program (HNRP) across six U.S. research sites. We used growth curve modeling with autoregressive Lag-1 structures and heterogeneous residual variances to assess the role of ethnoracial identity and HIV grouping upon decline in trajectories of cognitive aging.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>HIV- AI/AN adults demonstrated earlier and steeper decline in normative trajectories of cognitive aging on tasks of processing speed, timed tasks of attention/working memory, executive function, and psychomotor speed in comparison to HIV- NHW adults. Accentuated trajectories of cognitive aging were evident in both HIV+ and HIV+ immunosuppressed groups in comparison to HIV- peers and were primarily driven by the role of immunosenescence.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AI/AN disparities in trajectories of cognitive aging are evident and are likely explained by the interplay of biopsychosociocultural factors, including immunosenescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"540-556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11479638/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141634087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric properties of two instruments assessing catastrophizing and fear-avoidance behavior in mild traumatic brain injury.","authors":"Skye King, Sven Z Stapert, Melloney L M Wijenberg, Ieke Winkens, Jeanine A Verbunt, Marleen M Rijkeboer, Joukje van der Naalt, Caroline M van Heugten","doi":"10.1037/neu0000954","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000954","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Psychometrically sound measures of catastrophizing about symptoms and fear avoidance behavior are needed to further applications of the fear-avoidance model in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) for research and clinical purposes. To this end, two questionnaires were adapted (minor), the Postconcussion Symptom Catastrophizing Scale (PCS-CS) and the Fear of Mental Activity Scale (FMA). This study aimed to investigate the factor structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent and construct validity of two adapted questionnaires in a sample of participants with mTBI compared to participants with orthopedic injury and healthy adults.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>One hundred eighty-five mTBI participants (40% female), 180 participants with orthopedic injury (55% female), and 116 healthy adults (55% female) participated in the study. All participants were assessed at two time points (2 weeks postinjury and 3 months) using self-reported questionnaires. Data were collected using online questionnaires.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings indicated a three-factor model (magnification, rumination, helplessness) with a higher order factor (catastrophizing) for the PCS-CS and a two-factor model (activity avoidance and somatic focus) for the FMA. The results showed strong internal consistency, good test-retest reliability, and good concurrent and convergent validity for the PCS-CS and FMA across all samples.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study has shown that the PCS-CS and FMA are psychometrically sound instruments and can be considered for valid and reliable assessment of catastrophizing about postconcussion like symptoms and fear-avoidance beliefs about mental activities. These instruments can be used in research and clinical practice applications of the fear-avoidance model and add to explanations of prolonged recovery after mTBI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"403-415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141081952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Memory for emotional information in sporadic and Type 8 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.","authors":"Natália Araújo Sundfeld da Gama, Grace Ane Morgana Cavalcanti Queiroz, Cássia de Alcântara, Marcelo Maroco Cruzeiro, Mariana Asmar Alencar, Caroline Martins de Araújo, Gabriel Ferreira Dias Gomide, Leonardo Cruz de Souza, Antônio Jaeger","doi":"10.1037/neu0000957","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is often shown to cause episodic memory deficits. Here, we investigated whether such memory deficits are differentially expressed according to the emotional valence of stimuli and whether they are similarly reproduced in both individuals with sporadic ALS (sALS) and familial Type 8 ALS (ALS8).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twenty individuals with sALS, 18 individuals with ALS8, and 19 healthy controls were recruited for the study. After a neuropsychological and psychopathological assessment, all participants responded to a recognition memory test wherein images varying in terms of valence were initially shown. After a short interval, the images were shown again intermixed with new images, and the participants' task was to indicate whether each image was \"old\" or \"new\" and to estimate the confidence in their responses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both the sALS and the ALS8 groups showed significantly lower recognition of positive relative to negative valence images (<i>d</i> = 0.92 and <i>d</i> = 0.74, respectively), an effect that was completely absent for healthy controls (<i>d</i> = 0.17). These effects were qualified by a significant interaction involving the factors of valence and group (η<i>_p</i>² = 0.12).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current findings demonstrate that sALS and ALS8 are associated with decreased recognition of emotional information, an effect that is nonetheless restricted to positive valence stimuli. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"465-474"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141081948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Antecedents of mind wandering states in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment.","authors":"Andrew J Aschenbrenner, Matthew S Welhaf, Jason J Hassenstab, Joshua J Jackson","doi":"10.1037/neu0000941","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Mind wandering refers to periods of internally directed attention and comprises up to 30% or more of our waking thoughts. Frequent mind wandering can be detrimental to ongoing task performance. We aim to determine whether rates of mind wandering change in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment and how differences in mind wandering contribute to differences in attention and working memory.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We administered a standard behavioral task, the Sustained Attention to Response Test, to measure mind wandering in healthy younger adults (<i>N</i> = 66), healthy older adults (<i>N</i> = 51), and adults with cognitive impairment (<i>N</i> = 38), that was completed daily for 3 weeks. The <i>N</i>-back test was also administered at a reduced frequency as a measure of working memory performance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Generally speaking, averaged across 3 weeks of testing, relative to healthy older adults, mind wandering was higher in younger adults and in cognitive impairment, although the specific patterns varied across mind wandering states. Multiple states of mind wandering also predicted working memory performance; however, reaction time variability tended to be the best predictor based on model comparisons. Each state was also modestly associated with different dispositional factors including mood and Agreeableness.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patterns of mind wandering change across healthy aging and cognitive impairment and are related to individual differences in multiple dispositional factors and also working memory performance. These results suggest that different states of mind wandering should be measured and accounted for when modeling cognitive change in healthy and pathological aging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"430-442"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11176040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139707393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do we all do the same things? Applicability of daily activities at the intersection of demographics.","authors":"David Andrés González, Jared F Benge","doi":"10.1037/neu0000956","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000956","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the extent to which demographic factors-and their intersections-influence the applicability of items assessing activities of daily living (ADLs) in a sample of older adults.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants' (<i>n</i> = 44,713) Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) scores from a multicenter database were evaluated to see how participant and collateral demographics, contextual, and clinical characteristics impacted ADL nonapplicability (NA). Collateral, contextual, and clinical characteristics were matched in those with and without NA. The effect of participant demographics and their interactions on NA responses were modeled with logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At least one FAQ item (most commonly bill payment, taxes, playing games, and meal preparation) was rated as NA in up to one third of participants across ethnoracial groups. Dementia staging had the largest impact on NA, followed by participant demographics. In a matched sample, logistic models revealed that participant demographics, in particular sex, best predicted NA. However, meaningful interactions with ethnoracial group were noted for bill payment, taxes, meal preparation, and game engagement, suggesting that demographic intersections (e.g., younger vs. older Latinxs) meaningfully predict whether a given ADL was applicable to an individual participant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Neuropsychology is predicated on accurate assessments of both cognition and daily functioning and, in an increasingly diverse aging population, there should be careful consideration of demographic factors, their interactions, and historical contexts that drive day-to-day demands. This study establishes limitations of existing measures and paths forward for creating fair measures of functioning in older adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"379-391"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11443853/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140945392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vulnerability to semantic and phonological interference in normal aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).","authors":"Marie-Joëlle Chasles, Sven Joubert, Jessica Cole, Émilie Delage, Isabelle Rouleau","doi":"10.1037/neu0000945","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000945","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine whether the increased vulnerability to semantic interference previously observed in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is specifically associated with semantic material or if it also affects other types of material, suggesting generalized executive and inhibitory impairment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Seventy-two participants divided into two groups (33 aMCI, 39 normal control [NC]) matched for age and education were included. They completed a comprehensive neuropsychological examination, the French version of the Loewenstein Acevedo Scale for Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI-L; semantic interference test), and a homologous experimental phonological test, the phonological interference and learning test. Independent sample t tests, mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA), and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) on memory and interference scores were conducted to compare memory and interference in both conditions for both groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For memory scores, results revealed significant main effects of group (NC > aMCI) and condition (semantic > phonological) and significant interactions (poorer performance in the semantic condition for aMCI). aMCI committed more phonological false recognition errors, were disproportionately more vulnerable to retroactive semantic interference, and showed a higher percentage of intrusion errors associated with proactive semantic interference than NC.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare vulnerability to interference in aMCI and normal aging with two similarly designed semantic and phonological word list learning tasks. Taken together, our results suggest that aMCI present with broad difficulties in source memory and inhibition, but that impaired deep semantic processing results in additional semantic intrusion errors during proactive interference and impacts their ability to show good recall after an interference list (greater semantic retroactive interference). Results are discussed according to the level-of-processing and activation/monitoring theories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"416-429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139651293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of multiple sclerosis and aging on prospective memory using the ecological test of prospective memory.","authors":"Kim Charest, Marie-Julie Potvin, Estefania Brando, Alexandra Tremblay, Élaine Roger, Pierre Duquette, Isabelle Rouleau","doi":"10.1037/neu0000946","DOIUrl":"10.1037/neu0000946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember to produce an action at a specific moment in the future signaled by the occurrence of a specific event (event-based [EB] condition), a time or a time interval (time-based [TB] condition). Detection of the appropriate moment corresponds to the prospective component, while production of the appropriate action corresponds to the retrospective component. Although PM difficulties have been reported in healthy aging and in association with multiple sclerosis (MS), PM has not been examined in older persons with MS (PwMS). The main objective of this study was to investigate whether the decline in PM performance with advancing age is influenced by the presence of MS. This study also aimed to clarify the type of PM impairment (prospective vs. retrospective component in TB and EB conditions) in MS as a function of age.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 80 participants were recruited and separated into four groups: older PwMS (<i>n</i> = 20), younger PwMS (<i>n</i> = 20), older controls (<i>n</i> = 20), and younger controls (<i>n</i> = 20). PM and its components were measured using the <i>Test Ecologique de Mémoire Prospective</i> (TEMP), an experimental ecological tool using naturalistic stimuli developed by our laboratory that has been validated in previous studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>On the TEMP total score, a two-way analysis of covariance showed a main effect of age, a main effect of the presence of MS, as well as a significant Age × Disease interaction. Direct comparison between EB and TB conditions revealed that for the prospective component, only older PwMS had more difficulty in the TB than in the EB condition, whereas the retrospective component score was significantly lower in the TB than in the EB condition in all groups except in younger controls.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The TEMP revealed a marked impairment in PM in older PwMS compared to older controls and young PwMS. This impairment was particularly evident on the prospective component in the TB condition. Retrospective difficulties noted in the TB condition in all, but younger controls reflect the arbitrary nature of the cue-action link that is particularly sensitive to episodic memory difficulties often observed in aging and MS. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":19205,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"347-356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139651290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}