Age deficits in the control of prepotent responses: Evidence for an inhibitory decline.
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychology and Aging
- Vol. 21 (3), 638-643
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.21.3.638
Abstract
Older adults have more difficulty than younger adults appropriately directing their behavior when the required response is in competition with a prepotent response. The authors varied the difficulty of inhibiting a prepotent eye movement response by varying the response cue (peripheral onset or central arrow). The response cue manipulation did not affect prosaccade accuracy and latency for either age group and did not affect younger adults' antisaccades. Older adults' antisaccades were slower in the peripheral cue condition than in the central arrow condition. These findings are taken as support for the inhibitory deficit hypothesis of aging (L. Hasher, R. T. Zacks, & C. P. May, 1999).Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Aging (AGO 4306)
- National Science Foundation (SBR 9617274)
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