{"title":"Aging patterns of Japanese auditory semantic processing: an fMRI study.","authors":"Hengshuang Liu, Makoto Miyakoshi, Toshiharu Nakai, Shen-Hsing Annabel Chen","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1861202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1861202","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The efficacy of listening comprehension is presumably sustained over the life span, contradicting the stereotype of universal cognitive decline. It is thus worth investigating whether and how the preserved auditory semantic function is supported by affected or unaffected neural mechanism with age. To investigate this issue, 22 younger and 21 older Japanese adults were imaged in a 3 Tesla MRI scanner while performing an auditory semantic-tone task. Results showed that (a) relative to younger adults, older participants had preserved accuracy and slowed responses, underpinned by weakened interconnectivity and largely unchanged activation and laterality; (b) older adults with superior performance developed increased regional left-lateralization and stronger interregional connectivity within the domain-general networks; (c) these age-related or performance-related cortical reorganizations were largely consistent with neurocognitive aging models that were supported by age-sensitive cognitive domains, suggesting that these models might also be accountable for relatively age-intact cognitive functions such as auditory semantic processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"213-236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1861202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38739623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Larissa S Balduin-Philipps, Sabine Weiss, Horst Mueller
{"title":"Supporting auditory word recognition with transcranial direct current stimulation: effects in elderly individuals with and without objective memory complaints.","authors":"Larissa S Balduin-Philipps, Sabine Weiss, Horst Mueller","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1861203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1861203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthy elderly people often experience a subjective loss of daily memory performance whereas an objective decrease in memory performance is often observed in patients with memory complaints. In this paper, we investigate the influence of a single session of \"anodal\" transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) on auditory word recognition performance in a decision time experiment. Three groups of participants (>64 years of age) with and without memory complaints underwent a word recognition task, in which they had to recognize words previously encoded among several distractors (semantically or phonologically related words) via a button press. In this double-blinded study, the participants completed two sessions (sham/a-tDCS), counterbalanced between subjects with a washout period of at least 10 days. Twenty minutes of 1.5 mA a-tDCS was applied over the left temporal cortex during the memorizing and decision phases. Overall, our results demonstrated that the participants, independent of their memory performance, were faster in word recognition during a-tDCS. As expected, older participants with memory complaints recognized significantly less words correctly compared to other participants. However, tDCS did not have a beneficial effect on the extent of successful word recognition. These results suggest a general effect of a single session of a-tDCS over the left temporal cortex, with participants becoming faster in their word recognition, thus having easier access to encoded words.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"237-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1861203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39145477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Idea selection for propositional language production.","authors":"Megan S Barker, Amelia Ceslis, Gail A Robinson","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1862044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1862044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability to select an idea from an array of competing options is critical for successful propositional language production, and deficient <i>idea selection</i> contributes to propositional language impairments in clinical populations. We investigate whether three clinical idea selection tasks are sensitive to selection demands in neurologically unimpaired adults, and whether performance relates to age. 154 neurologically normal adults aged 18-89 years completed a neuropsychological baseline and three idea selection tasks. Stimuli either activated a dominant response or multiple competing response options. All three idea selection tasks were sensitive to selection demands in terms of reaction times but not errors. Older age was associated with greater effects of selection demands on Sentence Completion task performance only. Exploratory analyses revealed a potential role of executive functioning. Overall, we demonstrate that clinical idea selection tasks are sensitive to idea selection demands in a non-clinical sample, and show some age-related differences in performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"260-283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1862044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39082011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Cognitive Dysfunction and Dual Task on Gait Speed and Prefrontal Cortex Activation in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.","authors":"Shinnosuke Nosaka, Ken Imada, Hitoshi Okamura","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1866156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1866156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We aimed to determine how prefrontal cortex activation and gait speed during walking is affected by cognitive dysfunction and dual-tasking. Eleven and 14 participants were included in the MOCA-J (Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment score) < 26 (age, 76.0 ± 5.7 years; sex, six men and five women) and the MOCA-J ≥ 26 groups (age 73.9 ± 4.3 years; sex, seven men and seven women), respectively. We measured prefrontal cortex oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) levels (using Pocket NIRS HM), and gait speed during normal and dual-task walking (a letter fluency task was added). The oxy-Hb levels were significantly lower in the MOCA-J < 26 group than in the MOCA-J ≥ 26 group during dual-task walking. The gait speed was significantly lower during dual-task walking, compared with normal walking, in the MOCA-J < 26group.These results may have been influenced by the compensatory mechanisms in the frontal lobe.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"284-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38744896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Gryffydd, Biswadev Mitra, Bradley J Wright, Glynda J Kinsella
{"title":"Assessing prospective memory in older age: the relationship between self-report and performance on clinic-based and naturalistic tasks.","authors":"Lei Gryffydd, Biswadev Mitra, Bradley J Wright, Glynda J Kinsella","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1857327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1857327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This investigation assessed the relationship between subjective self-reports and objective measures of prospective memory with forty-eight healthy, community-dwelling older-adults (> 65 years). The Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire provided the self-report data, the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test was used as a clinic-based test, and the Telephone Task (telephoning the examiner at irregular, pre-scheduled times across one week) was used as a naturalistic measure. The self-reported difficulties were negatively associated with performance on the naturalistic task, <i>r</i> (41) = -0.341, <i>p</i> = <0.05, but not the clinic-based task. Performance tasks (clinic-based and naturalistic) were moderately associated, <i>r</i> (41) = 0.312, <i>p</i> = <0.05. Tests of retrospective memory (delayed recall) and executive function (attention set-shifting) did not individually predict performance on any of the prospective memory measures. Incorporating naturalistic probes of prospective memory performance into a clinical assessment may allow insight into the experience of prospective memory challenges in older-age clients.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"104-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1857327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38678806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gitit Kavé, Smadar Sapir-Yogev, Ori Zamsh, Nizan Waintraub
{"title":"Explaining vocabulary knowledge in adulthood through comparison with knowledge of math concepts.","authors":"Gitit Kavé, Smadar Sapir-Yogev, Ori Zamsh, Nizan Waintraub","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1846675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1846675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has assumed that all types of semantic knowledge are similarly affected by aging. We investigate whether knowledge of vocabulary and math concepts show comparable lifetime change. A sample of 252 participants aged 17-91 completed two multiple-choice tasks that examined knowledge of infrequent word meanings and knowledge of basic math concepts. Up to age 64, vocabulary scores improved, whereas math scores remained stable. After that age, vocabulary scores remained stable, while math scores declined. We suggest that the fact that the learning and use of infrequent vocabulary are incidental, incremental, and contextual contributes to maintenance of word knowledge into old age. In contrast, learning of basic math concepts occurs relatively early in life in an intentional manner, and both learning and use of these concepts involve constrained contexts. Thus, the nature of the acquisition and use of semantic knowledge across the lifespan affects its fate in old age.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"34-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1846675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38616157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Frankenberg, Maren Knebel, Christina Degen, Jelena Sophie Siebert, Hans-Werner Wahl, Johannes Schröder
{"title":"Autobiographical Memory in Healthy Aging: a Decade-long Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Claudia Frankenberg, Maren Knebel, Christina Degen, Jelena Sophie Siebert, Hans-Werner Wahl, Johannes Schröder","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1859082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1859082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autobiographic memory (AM) - which is generally considered to be the most advanced human memory system - is subject to a myriad of psychological and neurobiological factors. We, therefore, examined AM longitudinally during the transition from midlife to young-old age and from young-old to old age in two birth cohorts (born 1930-1932 and 1950-1952) hence starting at age 55.14 ± 0.94 vs. 73.85 ± 0.96, respectively. Participants (<i>n</i> = 239) of the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging were recruited of whom 166 could be reexamined after 9 ± 0.9 years. AM was investigated for three periods of life using an established semi-structured interview; potential cognitive decline was assessed on a broad test battery. All subjects stayed cognitively healthy. Analysis of variance with repeated measures revealed age-related semantization effects with a significantly lower number of specific and thereby a higher number of general AMs exclusively from young-old to old age. This effect did not coincide with cognitive decline. In the follow-up period, a significant decrease of event-related details was significantly more pronounced in the young-old than in the old cohort and details were better recalled by the young than the old cohort. At baseline, this difference was significant for the recent past only but involved all periods at follow-up. According to our findings, AM changes in healthy aging accelerate during the transition from young-old to old age and may herald other cognitive deficits. Additionally, these AM changes in cognitively healthy subjects point at an economic process of adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"158-179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1859082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38785503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stroop switching card test: brief screening of executive functions across the lifespan.","authors":"Maroua Belghali, Yauhen Statsenko, Vasyl Laver","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1844865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1844865","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to: (1) propose a novel version of the Stroop switching test, namely the Stroop Switching Card Test (SSCT), to assess the overall efficiency of executive functions (EF) and its underlying cognitive processes (conflict resolution and conflict adaptation); (2) examine the utility of the SSCT in the assessment of EF in different age groups (age range 15-75 years), compare its results with standard neuropsychological tests (SNT), and (3) examine the contribution of both the processing speed and cognitive reserve on the performance of all used tests. The SSCT showed more sensitivity to detect subtle executive dysfunction in the middle age (~50 years). Going further, the SSCT revealed a progressive decline in conflict adaptation over two life periods. The first period of decline started at ~50 years and the second at~ 65 years. The processing speed and cognitive reserve had a prominent role in our results, notably in SSCT.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"14-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1844865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38576826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul A Strutt, Amanda J Barnier, Greg Savage, Gabrielle Picard, Nicole A Kochan, Perminder Sachdev, Brian Draper, Henry Brodaty
{"title":"Hearing loss, cognition, and risk of neurocognitive disorder: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study of older adult Australians.","authors":"Paul A Strutt, Amanda J Barnier, Greg Savage, Gabrielle Picard, Nicole A Kochan, Perminder Sachdev, Brian Draper, Henry Brodaty","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1857328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1857328","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addressing midlife hearing loss could prevent up to 9% of new cases of dementia, the highest of any potentially modifiable risk factor identified in the 2017 commissioned report in The Lancet. In Australia, hearing loss is the second-most common chronic health condition in older people, affecting 74% of people aged over 70. Estimates indicate that people with severe hearing loss are up to 5-times more likely to develop dementia, but these estimates vary between studies due to methodological limitations. Using data from the Sydney Memory and Aging Study, in which 1,037 Australian men and women aged between 70 and 90 years were enrolled and completed biennial assessments from 2005-2017, investigations between hearing loss and baseline cognitive performance as well as longitudinal risk of neurocognitive disorder were undertaken. Individuals who reported moderate-to-severe hearing difficulties had poorer cognitive performances in the domains of Attention/Processing Speed and Visuospatial Ability, and on an overall index of Global Cognition, and had a 1.5-times greater risk for the neurocognitive disorder during 6-years' follow-up. Hearing loss independently predicted risk for MCI but not dementia. The presence of hearing loss is an important consideration for neuropsychological case formulation in older adults with cognitive impairment. Hearing loss may increase cognitive load, resulting in observable cognitive impairment on neuropsychological testing. Individuals with hearing loss who demonstrate impairment in non-amnestic domains may experience benefits from the provision of hearing devices; This study provides support for a randomized control trial of hearing devices for improvement of cognitive function in this group.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"121-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1857328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39106608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geoffrey B Maddox, Rahul Peravali, Tierney Linville
{"title":"Examining the effects of training on young and older adult implementation of spaced retrieval strategies.","authors":"Geoffrey B Maddox, Rahul Peravali, Tierney Linville","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2020.1846676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1846676","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the benefits of spaced retrieval are well established, research suggests that young and older adults often fail to optimally implement this strategy. The present study examined how task experience with feedback influenced participant-implemented spaced retrieval and its effect on short and long-term memory retention. Young and older adults were instructed to either equally space or expand their retrieval of face-name associations throughout an ongoing reading task. Participants were then provided feedback on the accuracy with which they implemented experimenter instructions. Results showed that feedback improved utilization of retrieval practice in both young and older adults. Moreover, both age groups successfully produced a pattern of expanded retrieval when instructed to do so, but failed to properly implement equal spacing. Consistent with extant research utilizing experimenter-determined spaced retrieval schedules, our study showed that the inclusion of a longer spacing interval immediately following acquisition resulted in reduced forgetting across the retention interval.</p>","PeriodicalId":520721,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition","volume":" ","pages":"48-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825585.2020.1846676","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38316146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}