Journal article
Age-related effects in inter-trial inhibition of attention
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Vol.18(5), pp.562-576
09/01/2011
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2011.591771
PMID: 21756189
Abstract
Young and older adults indentified the shape of a color oddball in a visual search task, and both showed faster and more accurate responses when the distractor color was passively viewed in the preceding target-absent trial than when the target color was previewed. This inter-trial effect, known as the distractor previewing effect (DPE), reflects an attentional bias that prevents attention from focusing on recently inspected features that failed to produce a target. The results showed that the DPE pattern was preserved across the lifespan, and that the age-related increase in the magnitude of the DPE appeared rooted in age-related slowing, suggesting substantial sparing of this inhibitory effect in old age.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Age-related effects in inter-trial inhibition of attention
- Creators
- Xiaoang Wan - Department of Psychology , Tsinghua UniversityMichelle Voss - University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAlejandro Lleras - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Vol.18(5), pp.562-576
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/13825585.2011.591771
- PMID
- 21756189
- ISSN
- 1382-5585
- eISSN
- 1744-4128
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070426102771
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