Boundary Extension Is Sensitive to Hand Position in Young and Older Adults
| Autor: | Kendra C. Smith, Margaret P. Munger, Kristi S. Multhaup |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Social Psychology Adolescent Posture The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Hand position 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Age groups Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Young adult Aged Aged 80 and over 05 social sciences Age Factors Boundary extension Middle Aged Hand Clinical Psychology Mental Recall Visual Perception Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Gerontology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 73(4) |
| ISSN: | 1758-5368 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES: Based on preliminary reports, we expected an age-related increase in boundary extension (BE), a phenomenon in which people falsely remember seeing more of a scene than was presented. Given recent data suggesting hand-centered attentional frames in young adults contrasted with body-centered attentional frames in older adults, we predicted hand-position effects on BE in young adults only. METHOD: Participants (59 young, 60 older adults) viewed photographs of complex scenes (e.g., a market) and answered yes/no questions about each. Half answered with key presses while their hands were framing the computer monitor; half while their hands were on a lapdesk. At test, participants indicated whether photographs were the same as, or at a closer or wider angle than at study. RESULTS: Both age groups demonstrated BE. When study-test angles were the same, participants rated test pictures as closer than at study. When study-test angles differed, older adults showed less BE than young adults. For both same- and different-angle conditions, there was a main effect of hand position (less BE when hands framed the monitor than when on participants’ laps). DISCUSSION: The data confirm older adults show BE but show no age-related increase. Surprisingly, both young and older adults showed hand-centered attention. |
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