Timing of Reflexive Visuospatial Orienting in Young, Young-Old, and Old-Old Adults
| Autor: | Chris Kelland Friesen, Alyson Saville, Annie T. Ciernia, Linda K. Langley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male Volition Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Aging Adolescent Poison control Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulus (physiology) Audiology Language and Linguistics Article Developmental psychology Inhibition of return Young Adult Orientation Reflex medicine Reaction Time Saccades Humans Attention Disengagement theory Young adult Aged Aged 80 and over Attentional control Cognition Middle Aged Sensory Systems Inhibition Psychological Pattern Recognition Visual Facilitation Female Cues Visual Fields Psychology |
| Popis: | This study examined adult age differences in reflexive orienting to two types of uninformative spatial cues: central arrows and peripheral onsets. In two experiments using a Posner cuing task, young adults (ages 18 – 28 yrs), young-old adults (ages 60 – 74 yrs), and old-old adults (ages 75 – 92 yrs) responded to targets that were preceded 100–1,000 ms earlier by a central arrow or a peripheral abrupt onset. In Experiment 1, the cue remained present upon target onset. Facilitation effects at early cue-target stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) were prolonged in duration for the two older groups relative to the young adults. At later cue-target SOAs, inhibition of return (IOR) that was initiated by peripheral onset cues was observed in the performance of young adults but not in that of the two older groups. In Experiment 2, the cue was presented briefly and removed prior to target onset. The change in cue duration minimized age differences (particularly for young-old adults) in facilitation effects and led to IOR for all three age groups. The findings are consistent with the idea that attentional control settings change with age, with higher settings for older adults leading to delayed disengagement from spatial cues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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