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Age-related changes in the effects of induced positive affect on executive control in younger and older adults-evidence from a task-switching paradigm. 诱导积极情绪对年轻人和老年人执行控制能力影响的年龄相关变化--来自任务转换范式的证据。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2361960
Kerstin Unger, Jordan Wylie, Julia Karbach
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Shift happens: aging alters the content but not the organization of memory for complex events. 转变发生了:衰老会改变复杂事件的记忆内容,但不会改变记忆的组织结构。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2360216
Can Fenerci, Emily E Davis, Sarah E Henderson, Karen L Campbell, Signy Sheldon
{"title":"Shift happens: aging alters the content but not the organization of memory for complex events.","authors":"Can Fenerci, Emily E Davis, Sarah E Henderson, Karen L Campbell, Signy Sheldon","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2024.2360216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2360216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While cognitive aging research has compared episodic memory accuracy between younger and older adults, less work has described differences in how memories are encoded and recalled. This is important for memories of real-world experiences, since there is immense variability in which details can be accessed and organized into narratives. We investigated age effects on the organization and content of memory for complex events. In two independent samples (N = 45; 60), young and older adults encoded and recalled the same short-movie. We applied a novel scoring on the recollections to quantify recall accuracy, temporal organization (temporal contiguity, forward asymmetry), and content (perceptual, conceptual). No age-effects on recall accuracy nor on metrics of temporal organization emerged. Older adults provided more conceptual and non-episodic content, whereas younger adults reported a higher proportion of event-specific information. Our results indicate that age-related differences in episodic recall reflect distinctions in what details are assembled from the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141174267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Memory and automatic processing of valuable information in younger and older adults. 年轻人和老年人对有价值信息的记忆和自动处理。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2360226
Dillon H Murphy, Kara M Hoover, Alan D Castel, Barbara J Knowlton
{"title":"Memory and automatic processing of valuable information in younger and older adults.","authors":"Dillon H Murphy, Kara M Hoover, Alan D Castel, Barbara J Knowlton","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2024.2360226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2360226","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People often engage in the selective remembering of valuable or important information, whether strategic and/or automatic. We examined potential age-related differences in the automatic processing of value during encoding on later remembering by presenting participants with words paired with point values (range: 1-10 twice or 1-20) to remember for a later test. On the first three lists, participants were told that they would receive the points associated with each word if they recalled it on the test (their goal was to maximize their score). On the last three lists, we told participants that all words were worth the same number of points if recalled on the tests, thus making the point value paired with each word meaningless. Results revealed that selective memory may be impaired in older adults using procedures with larger value ranges. Additionally, we demonstrated that the automatic effects of value may have a greater effect on younger adults relative to older adults, but there may be instances where older adults also exhibit these automatic effects. Finally, strategic and automatic processes may not be related within each learner, suggesting that these processes may rely on different cognitive mechanisms. This indicates that these processes could be underpinned by distinct cognitive mechanisms: strategic processes might engage higher-level cognitive operations like imagery, while automatic processes appear to be more perceptually driven.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141160725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Disfluency across the lifespan: an individual differences investigation. 一生中的不流利现象:个体差异调查。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2354958
Paul E Engelhardt, Ioanna Markostamou
{"title":"Disfluency across the lifespan: an individual differences investigation.","authors":"Paul E Engelhardt, Ioanna Markostamou","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2024.2354958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2354958","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study had two research objectives. The first was to examine age-related differences in the fluency of speech outputs, as prior research contains conflicting findings concerning whether older adults produce more disfluency than younger adults. The second was to examine cognitive individual differences, and their relationship with the production of disfluency. One hundred and fifty-four adults completed a story re-telling task, and a battery of cognitive measures. Results showed that younger adults produced more <i>um's</i> and fewer repetitions. For individual differences, results showed that inhibition and set shifting were related to the production of repetitions, and inhibition and working memory were related to uh production. Our results provide clarification about mixed findings with respect age and disfluency production. The individual differences provide clarification on theoretical arguments for disfluent speech in aging (e.g. <i>Inhibition Deficit Hypothesis</i>), and also sheds light on the role of executive functions in models of language production.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141064845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Development of the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Living (T-DIAL) to assess financial management remotely in older adults. 开发基于电话的日常生活工具活动(T-DIAL),以远程评估老年人的财务管理。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2352900
Jennifer L Thompson, Steven Paul Woods, Troy A Webber, Luis D Medina, Kenneth Podell, Hanako Yoshida, Darrian Evans, Natalie C Ridgely, Michelle A Babicz, Elliott M Gomez, Andrea Mustafa
{"title":"Development of the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Living (T-DIAL) to assess financial management remotely in older adults.","authors":"Jennifer L Thompson, Steven Paul Woods, Troy A Webber, Luis D Medina, Kenneth Podell, Hanako Yoshida, Darrian Evans, Natalie C Ridgely, Michelle A Babicz, Elliott M Gomez, Andrea Mustafa","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2024.2352900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2352900","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study evaluated the reliability and validity of a novel, performance-based banking task in 60 younger (18-34 years) and 60 older (50-85 years) adults. All participants completed the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Living (T-DIAL) using interactive voice response technology to complete a series of mock actions with a financial institution via telephone. The T-DIAL showed strong inter-rater reliability and internal consistency. T-DIAL accuracy was significantly and independently related to better self-reported instrumental activities of daily living and executive functions at a large effect size. Findings from this study provided preliminary supportive evidence for the reliability and validity of the T-DIAL, which had robust associations with manifest everyday functioning and higher-order cognitive ability. Future work is needed on the psychometrics (e.g. test-retest reliability, normative standards), and construct validity (e.g. diagnostic accuracy) of the T-DIAL in neurocognitive disorders and under-served communities for whom remote evaluations might be particularly relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140896527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory. 问问他们是怎么做到的:理清特定任务策略使用、日常策略使用和联想记忆之间的关系。
IF 1.9 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2345408
Caitlin M Terao, Sara Pishdadian, Morris Moscovitch, R Shayna Rosenbaum
{"title":"Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory.","authors":"Caitlin M Terao, Sara Pishdadian, Morris Moscovitch, R Shayna Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2024.2345408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2024.2345408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Past research has shown that self-reported everyday strategy use and task-specific strategy use are related to associative memory performance in aging. Understudied is the relationship between these types of strategy use, whether they predict associative memory performance, and how this may differ across genders.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A sample of older adults (<i>N</i> = 566, 53% female, ages 60-80) completed this online study. Study measures included 1. Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ) Strategy Use subscale, a self-report measure of everyday strategy use, 2. Face-Name Task (FNT), a measure of associative memory, and 3. self-initiated number and types of strategies used on the FNT. Analyses examined the interrelationships among all study measures and their relative contributions to FNT performance while accounting for intraindividual factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants who reported using more strategies on the FNT performed better than those who used fewer or no strategies; those who reported using at least three strategies and relating FNT to past experience performed best. Women outperformed men on the FNT but did not differ in task-specific strategy use. Participants who reported using no strategies on the FNT had lower MMQ Strategy Use scores. A multiple regression analysis indicated that female gender and using at least two task strategies were significant predictors of greater FNT performance.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results indicate that task-specific strategy use relates more to associative memory performance than to everyday strategy use, but neither accounts for the female advantage in FNT performance. Findings encourage querying task-specific strategy use to contextualize age-related associative memory decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140890565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Critical periods for cognitive reserve building activities for late life global cognition and cognitive decline: the Sydney memory and aging cohort study. 认知储备建立活动对晚年全球认知和认知能力下降的关键时期:悉尼记忆和衰老队列研究。
IF 1.6 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2023.2181941
Princess Neila Litkouhi, Katya Numbers, Michael Valenzuela, John D Crawford, Ben C P Lam, Princess Noosha Litkouhi, Perminder S Sachdev, Nicole A Kochan, Henry Brodaty
{"title":"Critical periods for cognitive reserve building activities for late life global cognition and cognitive decline: the Sydney memory and aging cohort study.","authors":"Princess Neila Litkouhi, Katya Numbers, Michael Valenzuela, John D Crawford, Ben C P Lam, Princess Noosha Litkouhi, Perminder S Sachdev, Nicole A Kochan, Henry Brodaty","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2181941","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2181941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive, social, and physical activities, collectively linked to cognitive reserve, are associated with better late-life cognitive outcomes. To better understand the building of cognitive reserve, we investigated which of these activities, during which stages of life, had the strongest associations with late-life cognitive performance. From the Sydney Memory and Aging Study, 546 older Australians, who were community-dwelling and without a dementia diagnosis at recruitment (M<sub>age</sub> 80.13 years, 52.2% female), were asked about their engagement in social, physical, and cognitive activities throughout young adulthood (YA), midlife (ML), and late-life (LL). Comprehensive neuropsychological testing administered biennially over 6 years measured baseline global cognition and cognitive decline. In our study, YA, but not ML nor LL, cognitive activity was significantly associated with late-life global cognition (<i>β =</i> 0.315, <i>p</i> < .001). A follow-up analysis pointed to the formal education component of the YA cognitive activity measure, rather than YA cognitive leisure activities, as a significant predictor of better late-life global cognition (<i>β =</i> 0.146, <i>p</i> = .003). YA social activity and LL cognitive activity were significantly associated with less cognitive decline (<i>β =</i> 0.023, <i>p</i> < .001, and <i>β =</i> 0.016, <i>p</i> = .022, respectively). Physical activity was not found to be associated with global cognition or cognitive decline. Overall, YA cognitive activity was associated with better late-life cognition, and YA social and LL cognitive activities were associated with less cognitive decline. Formal education emerges as the key contributor in the association between YA cognitive activity and late-life global cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10384651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Detecting mild cognitive impairment remotely with the modified memory impairment screen by telephone. 通过电话使用改良记忆障碍筛查远程检测轻度认知障碍。
IF 1.6 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2023.2189688
Amanda L Stein, Kathryn A Tolle, Amanda N Stover, Marcelle D Shidler, Robert Krikorian
{"title":"Detecting mild cognitive impairment remotely with the modified memory impairment screen by telephone.","authors":"Amanda L Stein, Kathryn A Tolle, Amanda N Stover, Marcelle D Shidler, Robert Krikorian","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2189688","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2189688","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The original Memory Impairment Screen by Telephone (MIST) was designed to identify individuals with dementia but was relatively ineffective for identification of less severe impairment observed in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We expanded the original MIST to create a modified instrument (mMIST) with greater sensitivity to less severe memory impairment. Older men and women with subjective cognitive decline were assessed by phone with the mMIST and subsequently classified independently with MCI or non-pathological cognitive decline. Participants with MCI produced lower scores on the mMIST than did participants without MCI, 10.8 ± 2.7 vs 13.3 ± 1.3, <i>t</i> = 5.68, <i>p</i> < 0.001, and performance on the mMIST predicted performances on the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT), Verbal Paired Associate Learning Test (VPAL), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) total score, and MoCA memory index score, <i>p</i> < 0.001. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses identified the optimal cut score on the mMIST to distinguish participants with and without MCI with Sensitivity = 73.1%, Specificity = 79.1%, and AUC = 0.79. Predictive values for distinguishing the amnestic form of MCI (aMCI) from non-amnestic MCI were Sensitivity = 81.8%, Specificity = 30%, and AUC = 0.82. These findings indicate that the mMIST is a valid screening instrument for identifying MCI. It can be administered remotely at low cost and low participant burden. Also, the mMIST has potential utility for remote cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation in research and clinical contexts. Further investigation is indicated to corroborate its utility for assessment of aging patients and research participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9161456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Uncorrected errors and correct saccades in the antisaccade task distinguish between early-stage Alzheimer's disease dementia, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and normal aging. 在反误差任务中,未纠正的错误和正确的囊视可区分早期阿尔茨海默氏症痴呆、失忆性轻度认知障碍和正常衰老。
IF 1.6 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-02 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2023.2198191
Hatice Eraslan Boz, Koray Koçoğlu, Müge Akkoyun, Işıl Yağmur Tüfekci, Merve Ekin, Pınar Özçelik, Gülden Akdal
{"title":"Uncorrected errors and correct saccades in the antisaccade task distinguish between early-stage Alzheimer's disease dementia, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and normal aging.","authors":"Hatice Eraslan Boz, Koray Koçoğlu, Müge Akkoyun, Işıl Yağmur Tüfekci, Merve Ekin, Pınar Özçelik, Gülden Akdal","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2198191","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2198191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia is a degenerative illness that is characterized by a gradual decline in cognitive abilities. Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is seen as a precursor to AD. The changes in antisaccade performance that can be seen in MCI may provide important clues in the early detection of AD. Therefore, the antisaccade deficits in AD and aMCI remain a research question. This study aimed to examine antisaccade responses and the relationship between antisaccade and cognitive function in AD, aMCI, and healthy controls (HC). This study included 30 patients with early-stage AD, 34 with aMCI, and 32 HC. Patients with AD showed higher rates of uncorrected error, anticipatory saccades and corrected errors, as well as decreased correct saccade rates, and shortened saccade latency compared to aMCI and HC in this study. Patients with aMCI exhibited increased rates of express saccades relative to HC. The antisaccade task and cognitive domains were found to be significantly related. Our study showed that the rate of correct saccades has the capacity to distinguish AD from HC with 87% sensitivity and 86% specificity (AUC = 0.93, <i>p</i> < 0.001). In addition, the rate of uncorrected errors was found to be capable of distinguishing AD from HC with 84% sensitivity and 83% specificity (AUC = 0.91, <i>p</i> < 0.001). This study presented promising findings that these parameters can be used clinically to differentiate AD and aMCI from healthy older individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9228349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The influence of interruptions and planning on serial everyday multitasking in older adults. 中断和计划对老年人连续日常多任务处理的影响。
IF 1.6 4区 心理学
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2023.2210814
Sarah E MacPherson, Vairi A W Gilmour
{"title":"The influence of interruptions and planning on serial everyday multitasking in older adults.","authors":"Sarah E MacPherson, Vairi A W Gilmour","doi":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2210814","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13825585.2023.2210814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive aging research has studied the influence of healthy aging on the ability to multitask. Yet, little is known about the factors that might improve or impair serial multitasking performance in older adults. Three experiments involving younger and older adults assessed the impact of interruptions and planning on a prop-based test of multitasking. In Experiment 1, 26 younger adults and 25 older adults' multitasking abilities were assessed; older adults performed significantly more poorly than younger adults. In Experiment 2, 19 younger and 22 older adults were randomly allocated to a group who experienced a one minute unexpected interruption while multitasking or a group with no interruption. The results showed that, when there was an interruption, the age difference disappeared. In Experiment 3, 32 younger and 30 older adults were randomly allocated to a group who were given 3 minutes to write an outline describing how they intended to approach the multitasking task, and another group who were given 3 minutes to label pictures of everyday objects prior to multitasking. Again, when participants were encouraged to plan, no age difference was found. These results highlight the advantage that interruptions and planning might have on serial everyday multitasking performance in older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":7532,"journal":{"name":"Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9462879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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