Are age-related deficits in route learning related to control of visual attention?

Age-related deficits in attentional control of perceptual rivalry

Some aspects of attentional processing are known to decline with normal aging. To understand how age affects the attentional control of perceptual stability, we investigated age-related changes in voluntarily controlled perceptual rivalry. Durations of the dominant percept, produced by an ambiguous Rubin vase-faces figure, were measured in conditions that required passive viewing and attentiona...

Running head: AGE-RELATED DEFICITS IN GUIDED SEARCH Age-Related Deficits in Guided Search Using Cues

The ability of young and older adults to engage in guided conjunction search was tested in two experiments. In the cued condition, a picture of the target was presented before the search. In the non-cued condition, there was no picture of the target. In Experiment 1, the cue was presented for 200 ms; the magnitude of the cuing effect (non-cued RT – cued RT) was greater for the young than for th...

Age-related deficits in low-level inhibitory motor control.

Inhibitory control functions in old age were investigated with the "masked prime" paradigm in which participants executed speeded manual choice responses to simple visual targets. These were preceded--either immediately or at some earlier time--by a backward-masked prime. Young adults produced positive compatibility effects (PCEs)--faster and more accurate responses for matching than for nonmat...

Visual selective attention and reading efficiency are related in children.

We investigated the relationship between visual selective attention and linguistic performance. Subjects were classified in four categories according to their accuracy in a letter cancellation task involving selective attention. The task consisted in searching a target letter in a set of background letters and accuracy was measured as a function of set size. We found that children with the lowe...

Age-Related Changes in Processing Irrelevant Stimuli 1 Age-Related Changes in Processing Auditory Stimuli During Visual Attention: Evidence for Deficits in Inhibitory Controls and Sensory Memory