14
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Age equivalence in switch costs for prosaccade and antisaccade tasks.

      Psychology and Aging
      Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Saccades, physiology

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          This study examined age differences in task switching using prosaccade and antisaccade tasks. Significant specific and general switch costs were found for both young and old adults, suggesting the existence of 2 types of processes: those responsible for activation of the currently relevant task set and deactivation of the previously relevant task set and those responsible for maintaining more than 1 task active in working memory. Contrary to the findings of previous research, which used manual response tasks with arbitrary stimulus-response mappings to study task-switching performance, no age-related deficits in either type of switch costs were found. These data suggest age-related sparing of task-switching processes in situations in which memory load is low and stimulus-response mappings are well learned.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          15065948
          10.1037/0882-7974.19.1.226

          Chemistry
          Adult,Age Factors,Aged,Female,Fixation, Ocular,Humans,Male,Middle Aged,Saccades,physiology
          Chemistry
          Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Saccades, physiology

          Comments

          Comment on this article