Open AccessNormal Aging of the Attentional Control Functions That Underlie Working Memory
Author(s) -
Stéphanie Sylvain-Roy,
Ovidiu Lungu,
Sylvie Belleville
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbt166
Subject(s) - working memory , psychology , reading (process) , task (project management) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , life span , audiology , span (engineering) , attentional control , cognition , neuroscience , gerontology , medicine , civil engineering , management , political science , law , economics , engineering
This study assessed the effect of aging on 3 attentional control functions (ACFs)--shifting, inhibition, and updating--and on their contribution to working memory (WM) tasks.
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