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The role of psychosocial context, age, and intelligence in memory performance of older men.

Author(s): Arbuckle TY, Gold DP, Andres D, Schwartzman A, Chaikelson J

Psychol Aging. 1992 Mar;7(1):25-36 Authors: Arbuckle TY, Gold DP, Andres D, Schwartzman A, Chaikelson J

Article GUID: 1558702

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

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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

Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.

Author(s): Phillips NA, Lesperance D

Psychol Aging. 2003 Mar;18(1):126-39 Authors: Phillips NA, Lesperance D

Article GUID: 12641317

Regret and quality of life across the adult life span: the influence of disengagement and available future goals.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Bauer I, Scheier MF

Psychol Aging. 2005 Dec;20(4):657-70 Authors: Wrosch C, Bauer I, Scheier MF

Article GUID: 16420140

Regret intensity, diurnal cortisol secretion, and physical health in older individuals: evidence for directional effects and protective factors.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Bauer I, Miller GE, Lupien S

Psychol Aging. 2007 Jun;22(2):319-30 Authors: Wrosch C, Bauer I, Miller GE, Lupien S

Article GUID: 17563187


Title:Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.
Authors:Phillips NALesperance D
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12641317?dopt=Abstract
Category:Psychol Aging
PMID:12641317
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Centre for Research in Human Development, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. phillip@vax2.concordia.ca

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Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.

Psychol Aging. 2003 Mar;18(1):126-39

Authors: Phillips NA, Lesperance D

Abstract

The authors tested whether older adults have greater difficulty than younger adults in ignoring task-irrelevant information during reading as a result of age-related decline in inhibitory processes. Participants were shown target sentences containing distractor words. They were instructed to read aloud each sentence and ignore distractors. The N400 event-related potential (ERP) was used to measure the extent of semantic processing of target and distracting information. It showed that younger adults semantically processed both target and distracting material, whereas online processing of target sentences in older adults was disrupted by the distractors. In older adults, memory for target information related to their susceptibility to distraction and inhibition efficiency. Implications for age-differences in inhibitory control, working memory, and resource capacity are discussed.

PMID: 12641317 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]