The importance of the body-specificity in the evaluation of visuospatial working memory.

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that executive functions (EF) predict life satisfaction for older adults. However, the mechanism is not known. By analyzing a sample (N = 3,287, ages 32- 84 years) from the Midlife Development in the United States 2, we examined the mediational role of coping strategies in the relation be...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Oh HS,Yang H

更新日期：2021-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to generate associative representations and to retrieve them from long-term episodic memory generally declines in healthy aging. However, it is unclear whether healthy aging has differential effects on associative memory for identity, spatial configuration, and temporal order relationships. In the current ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Hugeri O,Vakil E,Levy DA

更新日期：2021-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-factor model (FFM) personality traits are related to basic cognitive functions and risk of cognitive impairment in late life. The present study addresses whether FFM traits are also associated with a more complex cognitive function, reasoning, across adulthood. We used seven samples to examine the relation betwee...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Sutin AR,Stephan Y,Luchetti M,Strickhouser JE,Aschwanden D,Terracciano A

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the lived environment can affect cognition across the lifespan. We examined, in a large cohort of older adults (n = 3447), whether susceptibility to a multisensory illusion, the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI), was influenced by the reported urbanity of current and childhood (at age 14 ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Hirst RJ,Cassarino M,Kenny RA,Newell FN,Setti A

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of listening comprehension is presumably sustained over the life span, contradicting the stereotype of universal cognitive decline. It is thus worth investigating whether and how the preserved auditory semantic function is supported by affected or unaffected neural mechanism with age. To investigate this ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Liu H (柳恒爽),Miyakoshi M,Nakai T,Annabel Chen SH

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to determine whether word generation performance on individual within-task 20-second time intervals predicted conversion to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) status. Longitudinal data (Mean follow-up=2.95±1.64 years) was collected from cognitively-healthy community-dwelling older adults (N=344; %...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Jacobs S,Mercuri G,Holtzer R

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional impairment (FI) relates to the condition of executive functions (EFs). While EFs become affected by age and educational level (EL). Seniors suffering from depression (SSDs) on the other hand show EF-related deficiencies; however, there is hardly any literature available regarding their relationship with FI ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Ramos-Henderson M,Ledezma-Dámes A,López N,Machado Goyano Mac Kay AP

更新日期：2021-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between multiple chronic conditions (MCC) and risk of cognitive impairment with no dementia (CIND) and dementia among older Americans. A sample of 637 individuals aged 70 or older was drawn from the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study, a supplementary dataset of the larger nation...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Lee Y,Cho Y,Oh H

更新日期：2021-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although declarative memory declines with age, sex and education might moderate these weaknesses. We investigated effects of sex and education on nonverbal declarative (recognition) memory in 704 older adults (aged 58-98, 0-17 years of education). Items were drawings of real and made-up objects. Age negatively impacte...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Reifegerste J,Veríssimo J,Rugg MD,Pullman MY,Babcock L,Glei DA,Weinstein M,Goldman N,Ullman MT

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research suggests that working memory (WM) and motor control may engage similar cognitive and neural mechanisms in older adults, particularly when task difficulty increases. However, much of this evidence arises from comparisons across behavioral and imaging studies that test only one of the foregoing functional ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Gerver CR,Neely KA,Kurkela KA,Diaz MT,Goodman JT,Blouch S,Samimy S,Dennis NA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies suggest that memory loss with age is based not only on biological, but also on contextual factors. In line with the stereotype threat (ST) theory, it is argued that the features of the standard clinical situation may contribute to an underestimation of memory performance in older adults (OA). To prev...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Follenfant A,Atzeni T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Leftward deviation on a horizontal line bisection test (pseudoneglect) might be induced by right hemispheric dominance for mediating spatial or global attention, or a hemispheric asymmetry in the ability to spatially disengage attention. With aging, this leftward bias is reduced, likely due to the aging-rela...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Mańkowska A,Heilman KM,Williamson JB,Michałowski J,Harciarek M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous research, young adults who were told they were being observed and evaluated reported more tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) instances than those who were not. We first tested whether the same effect is obtained for older adult participants, and then compared the effects of ostensible evaluative observation on word r...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Schmank CJ,James LE

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant white matter (WM) brain pathology is often present in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cognitive effects of WM pathology on cognition in normal and pathological aging have been studied, but very little is known about possible group-specific effects in old age, MCI...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Kaskikallio A,Karrasch M,Rinne JO,Tuokkola T,Parkkola R,Grönholm-Nyman P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creative production has been reported to decline with age. This study investigated age-related differences in creative verbal production. Participants were 30 younger and 30 older adults. Study testing included language and cognitive assessments and the experimental task wherein participants created short stories inco...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Leon SA,Altmann LJP,Abrams L,Gonzalez Rothi LJ,Heilman KM

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging adults experience declines in working memory and episodic memory, however, it is unclear how these declines operate over time. Decreased working memory may be associated with early changes in episodic memory, by reducing older adults' ability to meaningfully integrate new information into pre-existing schemas an...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Memel M,Woolverton CB,Bourassa K,Glisky EL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining cognitive abilities in older adults can contribute to significant changes in socioemotional health and substantially reduce their perception of well-being. Whereas much attention has been dedicated to creating cognitive training programs to improve cognitive health in old age, there is little emphasis on the...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Buitenweg JIV,Van De Ven RM,Ridderinkhof KR,Murre JMJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high prevalence of sleep disruption among older adults may have implications for cognitive aging, particularly for higher-order aspects of cognition. One domain where sleep disruption may contribute to age-related deficits is prospective memory-the ability to remember to perform deferred actions at the appropriate...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Fine L,Weinborn M,Ng A,Loft S,Li YR,Hodgson E,Parker D,Rainey Smith S,Sohrabi HR,Brown B,Martins R,Bucks RS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered HPA-axis functioning is a hypothesized mechanism for worsened cognition in depression. The current study examines the indirect effects of depression on processing speed, executive functioning, and memory as a function of the HPA-axis. 38 individuals with a depression diagnosis and 50 healthy controls (HCs) age...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Karstens AJ,Korzun I,Avery ET,Kassel MT,Keelan R,Kales H,Abercrombie H,Eisenlohr-Moul T,Langenecker SA,Weisenbach S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined age-related differences in utilizing learned associations to guide visual search. Participants viewed an object cue that was associated with 1 or 2 target colors, followed by a search array. Older adults showed slower RTs, larger visual search slopes, and reduced cue-target associatio...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Hahn S,Buttaccio DR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether the effects of stereotype threat on memory and subjective age were moderated by positive age stereotypes and self-perceptions of aging among older adults. Perceived threat as a mechanism underlying these effects was also explored. Results showed that stereotype threat (high vs. low threat) ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Marquet M,Missotten P,Dardenne B,Adam S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially informative auditory and vibrotactile (cross-modal) cues can facilitate attention but little is known about how similar cues influence visual spatial working memory (WM) across the adult lifespan. We investigated the effects of cues (spatially informative or alerting pre-cues vs. no cues), cue modality (audi...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Curtis AF,Turner GR,Park NW,Murtha SJE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of two commercially available audiocassette memory improvement programs was evaluated in a sample of 32 healthy, community-living elderly adults. Participants were given a set of either Syber Vision's Neuropsychology of Memory Power tapes (Bornstein, 1989) or Nightingale-Conant's Mega Memory tapes (T...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Rebok GW,Rasmusson DX,Bylsma FW,Brandt J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults have difficulty recalling specific autobiographical events. This over-general memory style is a vulnerability factor for depression. Two groups receiving interventions that have previously been successful at reducing over-general memory in depressed populations were compared to a control group. Participan...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Leahy F,Ridout N,Mushtaq F,Holland C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that older adults show enhanced cognition for emotionally positive information has been labeled the positivity effect (Reed, Chan, & Mikels, 2014). According to the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST, Carstensen, 1991), a prominent lifespan development theory, cognition is strongly influenced by mo...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Kan IP,Garrison SL,Drummey AB,Emmert BE Jr,Rogers LL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To find out whether neuropsychiatric comorbidity (comMCI) influences spatial navigation performance in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). METHODS:We recruited aMCI patients with (n = 21) and without (n = 21) neuropsychiatric comorbidity or alcohol abuse, matched for global cognitive impairment and cogniti...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Keynejad RC,Marková H,Šiffelová K,Kumar N,Vlček K,Laczó J,Migo EM,Hort J,Kopelman MD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has shown that goal setting leads to gains in memory performance and memory self-efficacy across adulthood when goals are set by experimenters and accompanied by positive feedback. However, self-set memory goals have had less consistent impact. This research extended past studies on aging and memory goals to ...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： West RL,Strickland-Hughes CM,Smith KA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether young and older adults hold different beliefs about the effectiveness of memory strategies for specific types of memory tasks and whether memory strategies are perceived to be differentially effective for young, middle-aged, and older targets. Participants rated the effectiveness of five memory str...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Lineweaver TT,Horhota M,Crumley J,Geanon CT,Juett JJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and their role as a possible indicator for subsequent dementia became of growing interest in recent research. In contrast to studies that focused primarily on memory complaints, we aimed to (a) evaluate a questionnaire to register SCC in multiple cognitive domains (Complainer Prof...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Lubitz AF,Eid M,Niedeggen M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is closely tied to spatial navigation, a central component in cognitive functioning, and critically involved in age-associated cognitive decline and dementia. This study evaluated a novel, cognitive computerized spatial navigation training (CSNT) program targeting the hippocampus, with expectation of m...

journal_title：Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition

authors： Marusic U,Giordani B,Moffat SD,Petrič M,Dolenc P,Pišot R,Kavcic V

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00