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Everyday activity parameters and competence in older adults.

Author(s): Pushkar D, Arbuckle T, Conway M, Chaikelson J, Maag U

Psychol Aging. 1997 Dec;12(4):600-9 Authors: Pushkar D, Arbuckle T, Conway M, Chaikelson J, Maag U

Article GUID: 9416629
Individual differences in trajectory of intellectual development over 45 years of adulthood.

Author(s): Arbuckle TY, Maag U, Pushkar D, Chaikelson JS

Psychol Aging. 1998 Dec;13(4):663-75 Authors: Arbuckle TY, Maag U, Pushkar D, Chaikelson JS

Article GUID: 9883465
Social behavior and off-target verbosity in elderly people.

Author(s): Pushkar D, Basevitz P, Arbuckle T, Nohara-LeClair M, Lapidus S, Peled M

Psychol Aging. 2000 Jun;15(2):361-74 Authors: Pushkar D, Basevitz P, Arbuckle T, Nohara-LeClair M, Lapidus S, Peled M

Article GUID: 10879589
Effect of off-target verbosity on communication efficiency in a referential communication task.

Author(s): Arbuckle TY, Nohara-LeClair M, Pushkar D

Psychol Aging. 2000 Mar;15(1):65-77 Authors: Arbuckle TY, Nohara-LeClair M, Pushkar D

Article GUID: 10755290
Motivation, personality and well-being in older volunteers.

Author(s): Pushkar D, Reis M, Morros M

Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2002;55(2):141-62 Authors: Pushkar D, Reis M, Morros M

Article GUID: 12513036
Off-target verbosity, everyday competence, and subjective well-being.

Author(s): Arbuckle TY, Pushkar D, Bourgeois S, Bonneville L

Gerontology. 2004 Sep-Oct;50(5):291-7 Authors: Arbuckle TY, Pushkar D, Bourgeois S, Bonneville L

Article GUID: 15331857
Behavioural and electrophysiological measures of task switching during single and mixed-task conditions.

Author(s): Goffaux P, Phillips NA, Sinai M, Pushkar D

Biol Psychol. 2006 Jun;72(3):278-90 Authors: Goffaux P, Phillips NA, Sinai M, Pushkar D

Article GUID: 16413655
Autobiographical memory specificity predicts social problem-solving ability in old and young adults.

Author(s): Beaman A, Pushkar D, Etezadi S, Bye D, Conway M

Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2007 Sep;60(9):1275-88 Authors: Beaman A, Pushkar D, Etezadi S, Bye D, Conway M

Article GUID: 17676558
Neurophysiological measures of task-set switching: effects of working memory and aging.

Author(s): Goffaux P, Phillips NA, Sinai M, Pushkar D

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2008 Mar;63(2):P57-66 Authors: Goffaux P, Phillips NA, Sinai M, Pushkar D

Article GUID: 18441266
Testing continuity and activity variables as predictors of positive and negative affect in retirement.

Author(s): Pushkar D, Chaikelson J, Conway M, Etezadi J, Giannopoulus C, Li K, Wrosch C

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2010 Jan;65B(1):42-9 Authors: Pushkar D, Chaikelson J, Conway M, Etezadi J, Giannopoulus C, Li K, Wrosch C

Article GUID: 19875749
Longitudinal associations of need for cognition, cognitive activity, and depressive symptomatology with cognitive function in recent retirees.

Author(s): Baer LH, Tabri N, Blair M, Bye D, Li KZ, Pushkar D

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2013 Sep;68(5):655-64 Authors: Baer LH, Tabri N, Blair M, Bye D, Li KZ, Pushkar D

Article GUID: 23213060
Title:Effect of off-target verbosity on communication efficiency in a referential communication task.
Authors:Arbuckle TY,  Nohara-LeClair M,  Pushkar D
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10755290?dopt=Abstract
Category:Psychol Aging
PMID:10755290
Dept Affiliation: CRDH
1 Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. arbmaag@vax2.concordia.ca

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Effect of off-target verbosity on communication efficiency in a referential communication task.

Psychol Aging. 2000 Mar;15(1):65-77

Authors: Arbuckle TY, Nohara-LeClair M, Pushkar D

Abstract

The referential communication task was used to see if high off-target verbosity (OTV), defined as excessive speech that is lacking in focus, negatively affects communication of nonautobiographical information. The task required 1 individual (the director) to communicate descriptions of abstract figures to another (the matcher). Out of 455 adults aged 63 to 93 who were screened for OTV, 27 directors were drawn from each of the top and bottom 15% of the range of OTV scores and 26 directors and all 80 matchers from the middle 50%. High OTV directors were less efficient communicators about the figures and showed poorer inhibitory control but did not intrude personal information in their speech. The implications of the findings for the inhibitory deficit and pragmatic change explanations of OTV are discussed.

PMID: 10755290 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]