Age-Related Deficits in Visuospatial Memory Are due to Changes in Preparatory Set and Eye–Hand Coordination | Zendy

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Age-Related Deficits in Visuospatial Memory Are due to Changes in Preparatory Set and Eye–Hand Coordination

Author(s) -

Melanie Rose Burke,

Charlotte Poyser,

Ingo Schießl

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/gbu027

Subject(s) - psychology , working memory , eye movement , eye–hand coordination , cognition , set (abstract data type) , fixation (population genetics) , audiology , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience , population , environmental health , management , computer science , economics , programming language

Healthy aging is associated with a decline in visuospatial working memory. The nature of the changes leading to this decline in response of the eye and/or hand is still under debate. This study aims to establish whether impairments observed in performance on cognitive tasks are due to actual cognitive effects or are caused by motor-related eye-hand coordination.

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