Temporal context effects are associated with cognitive status in advanced age
| Autor: | Hedderik van Rijn, Sarah Maaß, Martin Riemer, Thomas Wolbers |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Experimental Psychology, Psychometrics and Statistics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Visual perception
media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulus (physiology) Neuropsychological Tests Cohort Studies Cognition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ddc:150 Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Dementia Humans Cognitive Dysfunction Cognitive decline media_common Aged Memory Disorders Psychological research Montreal Cognitive Assessment General Medicine Time perception medicine.disease diagnosis [Cognitive Dysfunction] Time Perception psychology [Cognitive Dysfunction] Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological research-Psychologische forschung, 86, 512-521. SPRINGER HEIDELBERG Psychological research 86(2), 512-521 (2022). doi:10.1007/s00426-021-01502-9 |
| ISSN: | 0340-0727 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-021-01502-9 |
| Popis: | The perception of temporal intervals changes during the life-span, and especially older adults demonstrate specific impairments of timing abilities. Recently, we demonstrated that timing performance and cognitive status are correlated in older adults, suggesting that timing tasks can serve as a behavioral marker for the development of dementia. Easy-to-administer and retest-capable timing tasks therefore have potential as diagnostic tools for tracking cognitive decline. However, before being tested in a clinical cohort study, a further validation and specification of the original findings is warranted. Here we introduce several modifications of the original task and investigated the effects of temporal context on time perception in older adults (> 65 years) with low versus high scores in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment survey (MoCA) and a test of memory functioning. In line with our previous work, we found that temporal context effects were more pronounced with increasing memory deficits, but also that these effects are stronger for realistic compared to abstract visual stimuli. Furthermore, we show that two distinct temporal contexts influence timing behavior in separate experimental blocks, as well as in a mixed block in which both contexts are presented together. These results replicate and extend our previous findings. They demonstrate the stability of the effect for different stimulus material and show that timing tasks can reveal valuable information about the cognitive status of older adults. In the future, these findings could serve as a basis for the development of a diagnostic tool for pathological cognitive decline at an early, pre-clinical stage. |
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